{"version":2,"name":"Christ Crucified by Gil de Siloé (circa 1488 to 1490)","paintingName":"Christ Crucified","artist":"Gil de Siloé","date":"circa 1488 to 1490","artistProfile":{"artistName":"Gil de Siloé","name":"Gil de Siloé","description":"Gil de Siloé was a Spanish sculptor. Their work is associated with Isabelline. Their recorded places of work include Burgos.","kind":"person","birthDate":null,"deathDate":"1501","activeDates":null,"nationality":"Spain","birthPlace":"Antwerp","deathPlace":"Burgos","attributionNote":null,"portrait":null,"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata: Gil de Siloé","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1283976"}]},"artistUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/archive?artist=Gil%20de%20Silo%C3%A9","medium":"painted wood","dimensions":"Unknown","location":"Parroquia de San Ginés, Ciguñuela, Valladolid, Spain. Displayed in 2024 at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, in the temporary exhibition El mirall perdut. Jueus i conversos a l'edat mitjana.","period":"Gothic","culture":"Spain, Kingdom of Castile","canonicalUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/archive/christ-crucified-gil-de-siloe-circa-1488-to-1490","imageUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/print-assets/6638efee6fef50cc9811fa4902a0d65012a3bebf223eb70ad750940abcca79ee-preview.jpg","highestResolutionImageUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/print-assets/6638efee6fef50cc9811fa4902a0d65012a3bebf223eb70ad750940abcca79ee.png","imageTitle":"Christ Crucified by Gil de Siloé (circa 1488 to 1490) | High-resolution image","imageRights":null,"publishedUtc":"2026-10-16T23:18:06.1697303+00:00","summary":"A painted wooden crucifixion carved in Gothic Burgos, commissioned by Alonso de Burgos, a converso, and displayed in 2024 in a Barcelona exhibition on Jews and conversos in the Middle Ages.","text":"This is Gil de Siloé's Christ Crucified, a crucifixion scene carved in painted wood and dated about 1488 to 1490.\n\nThe patron was Alonso de Burgos, a converso, and the work is likely to have been made in Burgos.\n\nIn this detail, Christ's head wears a thorn crown. Dark hair and beard frame a face marked by blood streaks on the brow.\n\nHis eyes are raised upward and his lips are parted. The sculpture presents the dying Christ, not an empty symbol.\n\nA lance wound opens in the right side of the torso, with blood running down the abdomen.\n\nVisible ribs and whip marks surround the wound. These carved details turn the body into a record of the Passion.\n\nChrist's right arm stretches along a dark crossbeam from shoulder to hand, with carved veins and sinews and a nail wound at the palm.\n\nHis left hand is fixed at the far end of the wooden crossbeam, splayed and pierced where the flesh meets the timber.\n\nThe thin sculpted anatomy, the carved sinews and the nails biting into the flesh read as naturalistic carving consistent with Gil de Siloé's Gothic style.\n\nThat naturalism makes the crucifixion legible as physical suffering, which is the devotional center of the image.\n\nThe commission by Alonso de Burgos, a converso, places the work in a specific religious and social setting.\n\nIn 2024 the work was shown at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in the temporary exhibition El mirall perdut. Jueus i conversos a l'edat mitjana.\n\nThe work is held by the Parroquia de San Ginés in Ciguñuela, Valladolid.\n\nTaken together, the carved wounds, the naturalistic anatomy and the converso patronage make this a crucifixion about embodied suffering and about the faith of a particular patron in late medieval Castile.","passages":[{"id":"passage-1","role":"hook","evidence":"documented","text":"This is Gil de Siloé's Christ Crucified, a crucifixion scene carved in painted wood and dated about 1488 to 1490.\n\nThe patron was Alonso de Burgos, a converso, and the work is likely to have been made in Burgos.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-2","role":"looking","evidence":"observation","text":"In this detail, Christ's head wears a thorn crown. Dark hair and beard frame a face marked by blood streaks on the brow.\n\nHis eyes are raised upward and his lips are parted. 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The source is a Wikimedia Commons page, not the parish catalogue, and is used as a discovery and description aid.","accessStatus":"open_access","consultationStatus":"partially_consulted","relevance":"artwork"},{"id":"book-ol48043848m","title":"Actas del Congreso internacional sobre Gil Siloe y la escultura de su época: Burgos 13-16 octubre de 1999, Centro Cultural \"Casa del Cordón\"","url":"https://openlibrary.org/books/OL48043848M","publisher":"Institutción Fernán González, Academia Burgense de Historia y Bellas Artes","sourceType":"book","authors":["Gil de Siloé"],"publicationYear":2001,"isbn":"9788495874023","annotation":"Recorded as congress proceedings on Gil Siloe and the sculpture of his era, with subjects Congresses and Late Gothic Sculpture. As an object- and context-specific scholarly volume on the named artist's sculpture, it is the closest match among the candidates for study of a work attributed to Gil de Siloe.","consultationStatus":"not_yet_consulted"}],"history":"This is Gil de Siloé's Christ Crucified, a crucifixion scene carved in painted wood and dated about 1488 to 1490.\n\nThe patron was Alonso de Burgos, a converso, and the work is likely to have been made in Burgos.\n\nIn this detail, Christ's head wears a thorn crown. Dark hair and beard frame a face marked by blood streaks on the brow.\n\nHis eyes are raised upward and his lips are parted. The sculpture presents the dying Christ, not an empty symbol.\n\nA lance wound opens in the right side of the torso, with blood running down the abdomen.\n\nVisible ribs and whip marks surround the wound. These carved details turn the body into a record of the Passion.\n\nChrist's right arm stretches along a dark crossbeam from shoulder to hand, with carved veins and sinews and a nail wound at the palm.\n\nHis left hand is fixed at the far end of the wooden crossbeam, splayed and pierced where the flesh meets the timber.\n\nThe thin sculpted anatomy, the carved sinews and the nails biting into the flesh read as naturalistic carving consistent with Gil de Siloé's Gothic style.\n\nThat naturalism makes the crucifixion legible as physical suffering, which is the devotional center of the image.\n\nThe commission by Alonso de Burgos, a converso, places the work in a specific religious and social setting.\n\nIn 2024 the work was shown at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in the temporary exhibition El mirall perdut. Jueus i conversos a l'edat mitjana.\n\nThe work is held by the Parroquia de San Ginés in Ciguñuela, Valladolid.\n\nTaken together, the carved wounds, the naturalistic anatomy and the converso patronage make this a crucifixion about embodied suffering and about the faith of a particular patron in late medieval Castile.","sections":[],"facts":[],"referenceSections":[{"id":"identity","title":"Identity and creation","entries":[{"text":"The artwork is Gil de Siloé's Christ Crucified, a crucifixion scene carved in painted wood and dated circa 1488 to 1490.","kind":"identity","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The file summary identifies the object type as a sculpture, even though the discovery pipeline labels the object a painting.","kind":"identity","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"visual-evidence","title":"Looking and visual evidence","entries":[{"text":"The photograph of the work was taken by Joe Mabel on 2 April 2024 using a Nikon D5200.","kind":"visual_observation","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The sculpted head of Christ wears a thorn crown, with dark hair and beard and blood streaks on the brow; the eyes are raised upward and the lips parted.","kind":"visual_observation","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"A lance wound opens in the right side of the torso, with blood running down the abdomen; visible ribs and whip marks accompany it.","kind":"visual_observation","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"Christ's right arm is stretched along a dark crossbeam from shoulder to hand, with carved veins and sinews and a nail wound at the palm.","kind":"visual_observation","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"Christ's left hand is fixed at the far end of the wooden crossbeam, splayed and pierced where the flesh meets the timber.","kind":"visual_observation","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"materials-technique","title":"Materials and technique","entries":[{"text":"The medium of the object is painted wood.","kind":"materials_technique","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"context","title":"Subject and historical context","entries":[{"text":"The scene was commissioned by Alonso de Burgos, who was a converso.","kind":"historical_context","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The work is likely to have been made in Burgos.","kind":"historical_context","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"interpretation","title":"Interpretation and reception","entries":[{"text":"The thin sculpted anatomy, carved sinews and nails biting into the flesh of this crucifixion read as naturalistic carving consistent with Gil de Siloé's Gothic style.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"exhibitions","title":"Exhibitions","entries":[{"text":"The work was displayed in 2024 at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, in the temporary exhibition El mirall perdut. Jueus i conversos a l'edat mitjana, meaning The Lost Mirror: Jews and conversos in the Middle Ages.","kind":"exhibition","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"reception","title":"Reception","entries":[{"text":"The object is in the public domain in its country of origin and in the United States.","kind":"reception","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"collection","title":"Collection and display","entries":[{"text":"The work is held by the Parroquia de San Ginés in Ciguñuela, Valladolid.","kind":"collection","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"values","title":"Documented values and qualified estimates","entries":[{"text":"Calculated working insurance estimate, not a sale price: Estimated insurance range: US$800K to US$4M Recorded date: Working calculation, generated 2026-10-16. Methodology: This is a broad, conservative working insurance range generated for manual review. It is calculated from the confirmed artwork context: a documented late 15th-century painted wood crucifixion attributed to Gil de Siloé, active in Burgos, with a secure Gothic date of circa 1488 to 1490 and a known commission by Alonso de Burgos. The work is tied to the Parroquia de San Ginés in Ciguñuela, Valladolid, and was shown in 2024 at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in the exhibition El mirall perdut. Jueus i conversos a l'edat mitjana. Because the object is a religious sculpture held in a parish collection rather than a painting with a market record, the range accounts for the high art-historical value of a named Gothic sculptor, the rarity of documented painted wood sculpture of this period, the work's exhibition history, and the uncertainty created by the absence of dimensions, condition reports, and an institutional curatorial record. No comparable sales or private insurance records were used, and the range is intentionally wide to support manual review. Qualification: This is a model-generated working range for manual review only. It is not an official insurance value, appraisal, auction result, or sale price. It does not claim access to private insurance records or comparable sales. The amount should not be used for binding coverage, financial decisions, or formal valuation without review by a qualified fine-art appraiser or insurer. Actual insurance values may differ materially because of condition, dimensions, provenance, attribution confirmation, and collection status.","kind":"calculated_insurance","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]}],"archiveResearch":{"catalogueFields":[{"id":"artwork-title","label":"Title","value":"Christ Crucified","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"artist","label":"Artist or attribution","value":"Gil de Siloé","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"date","label":"Object date","value":"circa 1488 to 1490","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"medium","label":"Medium and support","value":"painted wood","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"current-location","label":"Current collection or location","value":"Parroquia de San Ginés, Ciguñuela, Valladolid, Spain. Displayed in 2024 at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, in the temporary exhibition El mirall perdut. Jueus i conversos a l'edat mitjana.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"movement-or-period","label":"Movement or period","value":"Gothic","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"country-or-culture","label":"Country or culture","value":"Spain, Kingdom of Castile","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"subject-summary","label":"Depicted subject","value":"The crucifixion of Christ, carved in painted wood by Gil de Siloé between about 1488 and 1490. Alonso de Burgos, a converso, commissioned the crucifixion scene.","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"title-variants","label":"Title variants","value":"Cristo Crucificado (detalle); Crist Crucificat (detall); Christ Crucified (detail)","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"attribution-qualification","label":"Attribution qualification","value":"Authored to Gil de Siloé by the supplied file description; no exact parish catalogue record is supplied.","sourceIds":[]}],"claims":[{"id":"f1","sectionId":"identity","text":"The object is catalogued as Gil de Siloé's Christ Crucified, a crucifixion scene carved in painted wood and dated circa 1488 to 1490. Two elements of that catalogue entry deserve to be separated. The attribution to Gil de Siloé and the dating to circa 1488 to 1490 belong to the object's scholarly description, not to any inscription on the work itself. The object date, circa 1488 to 1490, is distinct from any later date attached to the object by a catalogue, photograph or exhibition record. The medium is painted wood, which establishes the object as a polychrome carving rather than a panel or canvas picture.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Catalogue entry and attribution","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Object"}]},{"id":"f2","sectionId":"identity","text":"The summary record for the file classifies the object type as a sculpture, while the discovery pipeline that surfaced it labels the object a painting. That discrepancy is a catalogue and metadata problem rather than a claim about the physical object. The material evidence recorded for the work, painted wood carved in the round with projecting arms and a crossbeam, is consistent with the sculpture classification, and the pipeline label should be treated as an error of automated description. Anyone citing this object from an aggregated record should confirm the object type against the sculpture designation rather than the pipeline tag.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Catalogue entry and attribution","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Object type"}]},{"id":"f2-2","sectionId":"identity","text":"The repository record notes that the object is in the public domain in its country of origin and in the United States, which concerns the copyright status of the work and its reproductions rather than the date or authorship of the carving. The photograph of the work was taken by Joe Mabel on 2 April 2024 using a Nikon D5200. The image date of 2 April 2024 is a photographic date, not the date of the sculpture, and it should not be confused with the circa 1488 to 1490 object date. The source is a Wikimedia Commons file page rather than the parish catalogue, so it functions as a discovery and description aid for the object, artist, date, medium, collection and exhibition, and its information should be weighed accordingly.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Documentation and photographic record","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Object type"}]},{"id":"f3","sectionId":"materials-technique","text":"The object examined here is documented as painted wood, a medium statement that places it in the tradition of polychromed sculpture rather than in panel or canvas painting. The Wikimedia Commons file page record supplies this medium designation in its summary. The same record identifies the work as a sculpture at the level of object type, and the discovery pipeline that surfaced the file labelled it a painting instead. Because the file page is a Wikimedia Commons page and not the parish catalogue, the medium designation is best treated as a discovery and description aid rather than as a conservation report: the published evidence establishes that the support and surface are characterized as painted wood, but the source consulted here does not itemize ground layers, pigments, binders or later interventions. What can be said with confidence, on the supplied evidence, is that the work is a carving whose surface was painted, and that the written record consulted does not go beyond that characterization.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Medium and support","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Medium"}]},{"id":"archive-04a208e152e91e9f2689","sectionId":"context","text":"The evidence supplied for this crucifixion identifies the work as commissioned by Alonso de Burgos, described in the source as a converso, and states that it is likely to have been made in Burgos. Those two points are the earliest documented circumstances the archive can attach to the object. They come from the same source summary, which reports the patron and the probable place of creation without offering a signed contract, payment record or workshop document. The word likely is important here: the connection to Burgos is presented as a probability rather than a settled fact, so the object's making should be described as associated with Burgos rather than securely localized there. The patron, by contrast, is named directly, and the identification of Alonso de Burgos as a converso is the social detail the source treats as significant. That detail places the commission within the religious and social world of late medieval Castile, in which a patron of converso background could commission a devotional image of the crucified Christ. It does not by itself explain the patron's motives, nor does it establish where the work stood during his lifetime. Both points remain the foundation of the commissioning history because no other evidence unit in this account adds, corrects or contradicts them.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Documented commission and place of making","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Description"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Place of creation"}]},{"id":"f5","sectionId":"collection","text":"The crucifixion attributed to Gil de Siloé, dated about 1488 to 1490, is recorded as held by the Parroquia de San Ginés in Ciguñuela, Valladolid. That parish location is the one collection fact the supplied Commons documentation establishes for the object, and it is worth stating plainly because it anchors the work far from the major cathedral and court centers where Siloé's better-known commissions are usually discussed: a late fifteenth-century painted wood crucifixion in a rural Valladolid parish church. The same source also records that the work was displayed in 2024 at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, in the temporary exhibition El mirall perdut. Jueus i conversos a l'edat mitjana, that is, The Lost Mirror: Jews and conversos in the Middle Ages. The loan to a national museum in Barcelona thus temporarily removed the object from its parish setting and placed it within a thematic exhibition about Jewish and converso presence in medieval art, which is the frame in which the sculpture's patronage history became legible to a modern audience.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Collection and display","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Collection"}]},{"id":"f5-2","sectionId":"collection","text":"The catalogue-type data attached to the work identify the patron as Alonso de Burgos, described as a converso, and state that the object is likely to have been made in Burgos. These two facts belong together with the parish holding: a crucifixion commissioned by a patron of converso background and probably produced in Burgos, later documented in a parish church in Ciguñuela. The exhibition title El mirall perdut. Jueus i conversos a l'edat mitjana shows that museum interpretation treated the patronage as the historically significant axis of the object, not merely as a footnote to its authorship. At the same time the attribution to Gil de Siloé and the date range of about 1488 to 1490 rest on the same Commons file page rather than on the parish catalogue, and that page is explicitly described as a discovery and description aid; the collection location is therefore documented at the level of that source, while questions of workshop participation, original destination and movement between Burgos and Ciguñuela are not resolved by the evidence supplied here.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Collection and display","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Collection"}]},{"id":"f6","sectionId":"exhibitions","text":"The sculptures of Christ Crucified attributed to Gil de Siloé, carved in painted wood and dated around 1488 to 1490, has a documented exhibition record that is separable from the object's longer life in a parish context. The work was displayed in 2024 at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona, within the temporary exhibition El mirall perdut. Jueus i conversos a l'edat mitjana, a title rendered as The Lost Mirror: Jews and conversos in the Middle Ages. That entry in the object's exhibition history places a late fifteenth-century Castilian crucifix within a museum narrative built around Jewish and converso presence in medieval Iberia, a framing that connects the sculpture's documented patronage to the exhibition's subject rather than treating the carving as an isolated devotional image. The evidence does not supply the exhibition's dates beyond the year, its curatorial checklist, or a catalogue entry for this object, so the precise place of the crucifix within the display remains to be established.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Exhibition History","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Description; Exhibition history"}]},{"id":"f6-2","sectionId":"exhibitions","text":"The 2024 showing at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya should not be confused with the work's current holding. The object is held by the Parroquia de San Ginés in Ciguñuela, Valladolid, a parish rather than a museum, and the evidence presents that location as the collection context rather than as a display venue. The distinction matters for how the exhibition is understood: the Barcelona appearance was a temporary loan of a parish-owned work, not a transfer into a permanent museum collection. The evidence does not record the terms of the loan, the lender's name beyond the parish, or any earlier exhibition history, and no catalogue number, page or plate for the object is supplied. Documentary questions about this object's public display therefore remain open, and the year 2024 should be treated as the only firmly documented exhibition date.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Exhibition History","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Description; Exhibition history"}]},{"id":"archive-a95ff32d48d360e83b33","sectionId":"reception","text":"The photographic record that underlies much of the available description was made by Joe Mabel on 2 April 2024 using a Nikon D5200. The photograph is therefore a modern document of the object rather than a historical source, and the observations of the head, torso, arms and hands derive from that image. The same Wikimedia Commons file page states that the object is in the public domain in its country of origin and in the United States. Reproduction and open licensing in this way are part of the object's modern reception history: they allow the sculpture to circulate as an image independent of its physical location, while the file page remains a discovery and description aid rather than a parish catalogue or archival record. The source is annotated as a Commons file page and is noted as partially consulted, which qualifies the completeness of the metadata it supplies.","kind":"observation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Modern Display and Interpretation","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Metadata"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Permission"}]},{"id":"archive-263936e5356553ab8c74","sectionId":"reception","text":"Taken together, the documented reception stages do not reduce the object to a single event. Its original function belongs to late medieval Castilian devotion, associated with a commission by Alonso de Burgos and a likely making in Burgos around 1488 to 1490, in painted wood. Its later cultural roles include retention in the Parroquia de San Ginés in Ciguñuela, Valladolid, inclusion in the 2024 exhibition El mirall perdut at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, and circulation as a public-domain photograph taken by Joe Mabel in 2024. Each stage adds a different frame: parish holding, exhibitionary interpretation of Jews and conversos in the Middle Ages, and open reproduction. The evidence supports these successive contexts without establishing a continuous provenance narrative or documenting intermediate owners, so the account should preserve that gap rather than fill it.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Accumulated Meanings","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Description; Exhibition history"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Permission"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Metadata"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Description"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Place of creation"}]},{"id":"archive-f3d44a1d1d9d06871861","sectionId":"visual-evidence","text":"The visual record of this sculpture begins with the photograph itself, because the evidence supplied describes the object through a specific act of looking. The image was made by Joe Mabel on 2 April 2024 with a Nikon D5200, a digital single-lens reflex camera. That date and instrument matter for how the work is known: the surviving visual evidence is a modern colour photograph of a painted wooden sculpture, and the observations recorded here are observations of that photograph's content, not of the object at first hand. The medium of the object is painted wood, a material fact that conditions everything visible in the image, since the carving carries a painted surface whose condition, tonality and losses are not separately described in the evidence. The photograph also belongs to a particular moment of access, because the same source records that the work was displayed in 2024 at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona in the temporary exhibition El mirall perdut. Jueus i conversos a l'edat mitjana, The Lost Mirror: Jews and conversos in the Middle Ages. The photographic record and the exhibition therefore coincide in time, and both frame the sculpture for a modern audience that encounters it as a museum loan rather than only as a parish object.","kind":"observation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The photographic record and its conditions","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Metadata"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Medium"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Permission"}]},{"id":"f10","sectionId":"visual-evidence","text":"At the centre of the composition is the sculpted head of Christ, which wears a thorn crown. Dark hair and beard frame the face, and blood streaks mark the brow. The eyes are raised upward and the lips are parted. Read together, these details describe a figure in the active state of dying rather than a serene or emblematic corpse: the upward gaze and open mouth give the head a devotional orientation toward what is above the scene, while the crown and the blood on the brow identify the moment within the Passion narrative. The evidence presents these as observed features of the carved and painted surface without attributing them to a named iconographic source text, and the distinction is worth keeping, since a thorn crown and a bloodied brow are conventional markers that the observer identifies, whereas the specific narrative moment is inferred from the posture and expression.","kind":"observation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The head and the Passion iconography","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Semantic focus candidate"}]},{"id":"f11","sectionId":"visual-evidence","text":"The torso carries the wounds that make the body a record of suffering. A lance wound opens in the right side, with blood running down the abdomen, and visible ribs and whip marks accompany it. These are not incidental injuries but a compacted set of Passion references: the lance identifies the post-mortem piercing of the side, the whip marks point back to the flagellation, and the visible ribs emphasise an anatomy reduced by torment. The evidence records these as carved details, which means the suffering is built into the sculptural form and not only applied through paint. The painted medium nonetheless matters here, because blood running down the abdomen depends on surface colour to be legible as blood, and the evidence does not describe the paint layer or its condition. Observation therefore establishes the presence and arrangement of the wounds while leaving the material history of the polychromy unexamined in the supplied units.","kind":"observation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Semantic focus candidate"}]},{"id":"archive-8b3f556167eeecd1feab","sectionId":"visual-evidence","text":"The arms extend along a dark crossbeam that runs from shoulder to hand on the right side, and the right arm shows carved veins and sinews, with a nail wound at the palm. On the left, the hand is fixed at the far end of the wooden crossbeam, splayed and pierced where the flesh meets the timber. The two arms together describe a body stretched under tension rather than resting against a support: the crossbeam is dark and wooden, the flesh is carved with anatomical detail, and the points of fixation are rendered as wounds where nail meets tissue. The discrepancy in the evidence's description, which specifies carved veins and sinews on the right arm and splayed, pierced flesh on the left, should not be flattened into a single formula, because it indicates that the surviving description attends to the two sides differently. Since the object is painted wood, the dark crossbeam and the flesh tones are both effects of the painted surface over carving, and the evidence does not separate the contribution of each.","kind":"observation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The arms, the crossbeam and the mechanics of the crucifixion","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Semantic focus candidate"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Medium"}]},{"id":"archive-340831c86be4fda84130","sectionId":"visual-evidence","text":"The thin sculpted anatomy, the carved sinews and the nails biting into the flesh are described as reading as naturalistic carving consistent with Gil de Siloé's Gothic style. This is a stylistic judgement rather than a documentary fact, and it is stated as a reading rather than as an attribution established by contract or inscription in the supplied evidence. The naturalism is tied in the same unit to a devotional purpose: it makes the crucifixion legible as physical suffering, which is the devotional centre of the image. The logic is worth spelling out. Carved veins and sinews, a thin anatomy and nails rendered as biting into flesh together produce a body that a viewer can read as a body under pain, and that legibility is what directs attention to the Passion rather than to the symbolism of the cross alone. The relationship between what is seen and what is claimed is therefore layered: the visual details are observed, the naturalism is inferred from those details, and the consistency with Gil de Siloé's Gothic style is an attributed assessment that the evidence supports but does not prove by external documentation.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Naturalism, style and devotional purpose","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Semantic focus candidate"}]},{"id":"archive-f255a3ad45a404531aea","sectionId":"visual-evidence","text":"The historical framing of the object belongs to the same account of looking, because the sculpture was commissioned by Alonso de Burgos, who was a converso, and the work is likely to have been made in Burgos. Those two facts connect the visual programme to a specific religious and social setting in late medieval Castile, and they also connect the object to the exhibition in which it was shown in 2024, whose title concerns Jews and conversos in the Middle Ages. The evidence states the place of creation as likely rather than certain, and it attributes the patronage to Alonso de Burgos without describing the terms of the commission, so the connection between the patron's background and the sculpted details remains a matter of context rather than of documented intent. The work is held by the Parroquia de San Ginés in Ciguñuela, Valladolid, which places the object in a parish collection rather than a museum collection and explains why the 2024 display was a loan. Finally, the object is in the public domain in its country of origin and in the United States, a rights status that is separate from its physical custody and from the photograph's own authorship.","kind":"observation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Patronage, place and custody","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Description"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Place of creation"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Permission"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Metadata"}]},{"id":"archive-bca5758828fa164c3e29","sectionId":"visual-evidence","text":"The value of the supplied evidence lies in how it separates registers of knowledge about this crucifixion. The carving is described in terms of what can be seen in a photograph made in 2024, the medium is documented as painted wood, the patronage and place of creation are documented or assessed as likely, and the stylistic affinity with Gil de Siloé's Gothic manner is offered as a reading. Taken together, the carved wounds, the naturalistic anatomy and the converso patronage make the work a crucifixion about embodied suffering and about the faith of a particular patron, and its presence in a 2024 exhibition on Jews and conversos gives that patron's background a public interpretive frame. The object is simultaneously a parish sculpture held in Ciguñuela, a loaned exhibit in Barcelona, a photographed image by Joe Mabel, and a public-domain work in two jurisdictions, and these are not competing descriptions but distinct layers of its documented history.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Medium"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Description"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Place of creation"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Permission"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Metadata"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Semantic focus candidate"}]},{"id":"f14","sectionId":"interpretation","text":"The reading of this crucifixion as naturalistic is grounded in specific carved features: the thin sculpted anatomy, the carved sinews, and the nails that appear to bite into the flesh. These traits are described as consistent with Gil de Siloé's Gothic style, so that the crucifixion becomes legible as physical suffering, which the source identifies as the devotional center of the image. This is an attributed stylistic judgment rather than a statement about the sculptor's private intention; the evidence links observable carving to a named style, not to a documented mental state or programmatic motive.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Attributed Style and the Limits of Attribution","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Semantic focus candidate"}]},{"id":"valuation-calculated-insurance","sectionId":"values","text":"A working insurance estimate for the object records a range of US$800K to US$4M, generated on 2026-10-16 as a broad, deliberately conservative figure for manual review. The calculation states its own basis: the confirmed artwork context of a documented late fifteenth-century painted wood crucifixion attributed to Gil de Siloé, active in Burgos, with a Gothic date of circa 1488 to 1490 and a known commission by Alonso de Burgos; the work's tie to the Parroquia de San Ginés in Ciguñuela, Valladolid; and its showing in 2024 at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in the exhibition El mirall perdut. Jueus i conversos a l'edat mitjana. The range is explicitly said to account for the high art-historical value of a named Gothic sculptor, the rarity of documented painted wood sculpture of the period, the exhibition history, and the uncertainty created by the absence of dimensions, condition reports, and an institutional curatorial record. It states that no comparable sales or private insurance records were used and that the range was left intentionally wide to support manual review. The record qualifies itself as a model-generated working range only, not an official insurance value, appraisal, auction result, or sale price, and it does not claim access to private insurance records or comparable sales; the amount should not be used for binding coverage, financial decisions, or formal valuation without review by a qualified fine-art appraiser or insurer, and actual insurance values may differ materially because of condition, dimensions, provenance, attribution confirmation, and collection status. Because this figure is an attributed working calculation rather than a market result, it documents the state of valuation reasoning about the object, not a price the object has fetched.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Working valuation record","citations":[]}],"gaps":[],"timeline":[{"id":"timeline-cfec46187d21d3d169b7","date":"2024","text":"The work was displayed in a temporary exhibition at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona.","sourceIds":["source-1"],"citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary, Description; Exhibition history"}]}],"coverage":{"scope":"This record brings together the supplied object-specific evidence and literature. 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