Brazilian school. 18th century. "Articulated Christ". Wonderful sculpture in carved wood, possibly pear tree and with glass eyes. Height: 171 cm. This is one of the most portentous examples of this type of figures, with a treatment of the anatomy worthy of the best gouge. The sculptor spares no detail to show us a male body with a canon of beauty in its maximum splendour. He stops to sculpt the ribs marked all around, the sternum, abdomen, lower abdomen, nipples and navel, continuing with the musculature of the legs and ending with a meticulous treatment of hands and feet, where he marks veins, bones and tendons to the smallest detail. The head deserves a special mention, which is, by itself, a work of art. He sculpts a young Jesus, with a bone structure of great beauty, with marked cheekbones, aquiline nose and prominent eyebrows on a deep orbital region, where rest some awake and lively green eyes. lively green eyes. The carver finishes his work with fleshy, half-open lips, which slightly reveal the teeth, ears of perfect morphology, mustache and a split beard of curly hair. The upper part of the original wooden rod that provided the head movement, possibly operated through the door located on the back of the figure, has not been preserved. In substitution, nowadays we find a small wooden wick glued to the neck, in which the head is placed. However, the lower part of this mechanism is preserved, although it has lost its function, as it no longer communicates with the head.