Pietà
by MORALES, Luis de, Oil on panel, 126 x 98 cm
Most of Morales’s clientele preferred simplified compositions comprising a few figures, dramatically illuminated and posed against a dark or neutral background, the purpose of which was to arouse feelings of tragedy in the viewers and even move them to tears. This Pietà, which came from the Jesuit church in C�rdoba, is an example of this type of compositions.