Baroque pedestal; Spanish school of the seventeenth... Lot 38

Baroque pedestal; Spanish school of the seventeenth century. Carved and gilded wood. Measurements: 48 x 99 x 51 cm. This type of pedestal has been used since antiquity to house figures, mainly religious and with vestments, which fell on the pedestal in a graceful way. These arcitectonic pieces were common in the Spanish Baroque period. From this moment on, and with numerous decorative variations, it became a characteristic element of architecture and other Baroque arts, appearing in painting, sculpture, etc. The most common was to decorate them with bunches of grapes and branches and vine leaves, in clear allusion to the Body and Blood of Christ, key elements in the Salvation of Humanity, although, already more towards the 18th century, there will be other examples that add leaves and roses or flowers, responding, surely, to a greater relationship with elements of Rococo or to an association with a feminine environment.