
Pedro de Mena (1628-1688) was a Spanish Baroque sculptor from Granada who became one of the greatest practitioners of polychrome wood sculpture in Spain. He trained under his father, Alonso de Mena, and later worked closely with Alonso Cano. His carved and painted wooden figures of saints achieve a startling emotional and physical realism.
Mena's Magdalene in the Museo Nacional de Escultura in Valladolid, depicting a gaunt, grief-stricken penitent in a rough hair shirt, is one of the most powerful devotional images in Spanish art. His Ecce Homo busts and figures of St. Francis demonstrate the intense spiritual naturalism that defined the Spanish Baroque tradition.
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