Catalogue
Sculpture
San Diego de Kisai
Desconocido
Technical Datasheet
This sculpture represents Saint Diego Kisai, one of the Jesuits who were tortured in 1597 near Nagasaki (Japan). It is presented standing, wearing the typical attire of his status as a Jesuit, with a black cassock and a black cloak, generously decorated with gold leaf paintings. Its layout is frontal, being captured as if it was starting to walk – it has its left leg ahead and its head is lightly turned to that same side –, representing a gesture that gives the image dynamism, to that also contributes the drapery of the cloak. These techniques, along with the countenance’s expressivity – it moves the head up, opening slightly its mouth and frowning softly – reveal this sculpture’s baroque style.
It opens its arms, raising the right one, it must have carried one of the iconographic attributes (now lost): the cross in which it died or a martyr’s palm.
This image, along with its companion (Saint John of Goto), was part of an altarpiece of the first third of the 18th century in the Annunciation Church.
References:
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Falcón, T., Arquillo, F., Ruiz de la Canal, M.D., El Patrimonio recuperado de la Universidad de Sevilla - Catálogo de la Exposición (Sevilla, 1997).
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Falcón Márquez, T., et alii., Universidad de Sevilla. Patrimonio monumental y artístico. (Sevilla, 1986).
NºCatalogue
1614-00-IA-ESC
Author/s
Typology
Chronology
1630 - 1660
Style
Technique
Materials
Location
Dimensions
147 x 72 x 45 cm
Collection
Form of entry
Date of admission
22-08-1769
