Spanish or Italian school; 16th century."Risen Christ".Carved wood.Remains of polychromy.Tabernacle door.It shows later interventions.Measurements: 44 x 24 x 4 cm.In this relief, which belongs to a tabernacle door, the author has represented the theme of the Resurrection of Christ. In the image, the Saviour can be seen standing while in the lower part the soldiers flanking the tomb are asleep. Jesus is dressed in a cloak and carrying a cross, which is raised above his tomb, while he raises one of his arms with which he adopts the gesture of blessing in his hand. The composition is pyramidal and symmetrical, with Christ at the top, above the tomb, and the soldiers on the ground at his feet.Spanish and Italian religious sculpture is one of the most authentic and personal examples of our art, because its conception and form of expression arose from the people and their deepest feelings. With the economy of the state in ruins, the nobility in decline and the high clergy burdened with heavy taxes, it was the monasteries, parishes and confraternities of clerics and laymen who promoted its development, with the works sometimes being financed by popular subscription. Sculpture was thus obliged to express the prevailing ideals in these environments, which were none other than religious ones, at a time when Counter-Reformation doctrine demanded a realistic language from art so that the faithful could understand and identify with what was represented, and an expression endowed with an intense emotional content in order to increase the fervour and devotion of the people. Religious themes were therefore the preferred subject matter of Spanish sculpture of this period, which in the early decades of the century was based on a priority interest in capturing the natural world, gradually intensifying over the course of the century in the depiction of expressive values, which it achieved through movement and the variety of gestures, the use of light resources and the representation of moods and feelings.