TREASURES FROM MEDIEVAL TO BAROQUE ART
Exceptional polychrome wood carving. José de Mora (Baza, Granada, 1642 – Granada, 1724), son of the sculptor Bernardo de Mora, was trained in his workshop together with Pedro de Mena and Alonso Cano. It was the latter who marked him decisively much more than his father or Mena. In 1669, two years after Cano’s death, he went to Madrid, where he worked with Sebastián de Herrera Barnuevo, who had also been a disciple of Alonso Cano. In 1672 he was appointed chamber sculptor of Carlos II until 1680 who left Madrid and returned permanently to Granada. With a very complex and introverted personality, when his wife died and not having had children, he was left alone and became depressed. His sculpture travels parallel to his state of mind and creating an imagery of deep feeling, of infinite sensitivity that shows an inner pain, collected, intimate, in a state of absence of the worldly thing, quite possibly the sculptor is representing us the state of his own soul in Dolorosas as the Virgen de la Soledad from the Güell Collection, today in the Colegio de San Gregorio de Valladolid, or the Virgen de los Dolores of the Church of Santa Ana de Granada. He made a very measured sculpture, minimalist in the expressive and in the polychromy that he had learned from Cano, but which he executed with less virtuosity and greater austerity in a very personal style of great artistic efficiency. Measurements: 61 cm or the Virgen de los Dolores of the Church of Santa Ana de Granada. He made a very measured sculpture, minimalist in the expressive and in the polychromy that he had learned from Cano, but which he executed with less virtuosity and greater austerity in a very personal style of great artistic efficiency. Measurements: 61 cm or the Virgen de los Dolores of the Church of Santa Ana de Granada. He made a very measured sculpture, minimalist in the expressive and in the polychromy that he had learned from Cano, but which he executed with less virtuosity and greater austerity in a very personal style of great artistic efficiency. Measurements: 61 cm
