NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA CRUZ, PATRONA DE LEZUZA, ES COPIA DE UN GRABADO DE LA PIEDAD DE COLONNA: UNA OBRA DE MIGUEL ÁNGEL BUONARROTI OUR LADY OF THE CROSS, PATRON SAINT OF LEZUZA, WHICH IS A COPY OF AN ENGRAVING OF THE PIETA OF COLONNA: A MASTERPIECE BY MIGUEL ÁNGEL BUONARROTI J. Ángel Munera Martínez CEIP Federico Mayor Zaragoza
[email protected] Recibido/Received: 07-06-2017 Aceptado/Accepted: 26-10-2017 RESUMEN: Ntra. Sra. de la Cruz, Pa- ABSTRACT: Our Lady of the Cross, trona de la villa de Lezuza (Albacete), Patron Saint of the town of Lezuza es una talla de madera policromada (Albacete), is a polychromatic carv- realizada hacia 1596 por un escultor ing made around 1596 by an anony- anónimo, probablemente de Toledo. mous sculptor, probably in Toledo. - The sculptor copies accurately a jo que Miguel Ángel Buonarroti hizo picture that Miguel Ángel Buonar- haciaEl escultor 1540 copiapara sufielmente amiga Victoriaun dibu roti made approximately in 1540 to Colonna, marquesa de Pescara. Esta his friend Victoria Colonna, marchio- ilustración va a ser reproducida por ness of Pescara. This illustration is diversos grabadores en el siglo XVI: going to be replicated by different engravings in the XVI century: Julio Julio Bonasone, Nicolás Beatrizet, Bonasone, Nicolás Beatrizet, Giovan Giovan Battista de Cavalieri y Agos- Battista de Cavalieri and Agostino tino Caracci. Alguna de las estampas Caracci. One of the holy cards be- correspondientes a los grabados lle- longing to the engravings came to gó al taller de nuestro escultor anó- Toledo where our anonymous sculp- nimo de Toledo y le sirvió de modelo tor was from and it was used as a para tallar el grupo escultórico de model to sculpt the sculptural group la Virgen de la Cruz, obra encarga- of the Virgin of the Cross, master- da por la Cofradía de la Vera Cruz.