St. John of the Cross: Gijon's statue at the National Gallery invites reflection on the 16th-century poet and saint.(Art)(Biography)

National Catholic Reporter | April 2, 2004| | Copyright

If you are planning to be in Washington in the next few weeks, be sure to visit the National Gallery of Art. There, in Gallery 11 of the West Building, you can see "St. John of the Cross," the polychromed wooden sculpture of the 16th-century Spanish Carmelite priest, poet and mystical doctor of the church.

Purchased last September by the National Gallery, the statue is thought to be work of Francisco Antonio Gijon, a Spaniard who lived from 1653 to 1721 and was a well-known artist in his day. In 1675 the Carmelites of Seville commissioned Gijon to produce a statue of ...

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