Spanish school of the 16th century. "Saint John... Lot 31

Spanish school of the 16th century. "Saint John the Evangelist". Carved and polychrome wood. It presents important faults in the carving. Measurements: 45 x 25 x 34 cm. Round sculpture representing Saint John the Evangelist, the most poetic and conceptual of the four evangelists. John the Evangelist is usually assimilated to the figure of the "beloved disciple", and the writings say that after the martyrdom of Peter and Paul he settled in Ephesus. Tradition has it that he was taken to Rome, where the Emperor Domitian ordered him to be burned with boiling oil. He is not considered a martyred apostle according to tradition, as he was saved from martyrdom and banished to the island of Patmos, where he wrote the Apocalypse. Saint John the Evangelist is one of the figures who appears most frequently in the narratives and plastic representations of the Passion of Christ. He is often depicted at the foot of the cross next to the Virgin, and it was he who laid his head on the breast of Jesus at the Last Supper, when the name of the disciple who was to betray his master was revealed to him.