The Museum of the Ways of the Gaudí Palace presents as ‘Piece of the Month’ for April an 18th century processional cross from Brimeda (León). The work is exhibited throughout this month in a prominent place on the second floor of the Gaudí Palace.
Latin cross with straight arms, profile decorated with vegetal themes and angel heads, turned pinnacles at the ends and a central square. On the obverse, the expansions of the arms are resolved with cartouches framing oval mirrors. The terminations, also with cartouches, insert the pelican feeding blood to its chicks, Mary Magdalene and the Dolorosa and St. John on the sides. On the central square, the Crucified.
The reverse is the same decoratively, but iconographically the four evangelists are the protagonists. The Virgin and Child on the crescent completes the program.
The foot, circular with four facades and vegetal decoration framing niches with apostles, is topped with another body as a dome.
This piece is a splendid example of the exuberant baroque forms that, with elegance and excellent embossing technique and quality of the reliefs, demonstrate the category of the goldsmiths of Asturias in the 18th century, although the cross lacks marking.
At the end of April, the piece will be moved, but will remain until the end of the year along with the rest of the works featured monthly. The Gaudí Palace is open daily from Monday to Sunday from 10:30 am to 2:00 pm and in the afternoons from 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm.