Focus on Christ Bound and analyze the Sculpture.
The sculpture depicts Christ with his eyes downcast and his body elegantly bent into a precarious and yet balanced pose. The curve of his body might be following the curve of the single piece of tusk from whence this figure was cut. This sculpture is early evidence of Duquesnoy's aesthetic vision, his maniera greca. Similarly to Duquesnoy's Saint Andrew and its Laocoön-like torso, the Christ is here depicted in a way which is reminiscent of ancient Greek sculpture. The Christ Bound's proportioned, slim and toned body is a fundamental aspect in Duquesnoy's own vision of valuable Ancient Roman and Greek sculpture.The sculpture is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where it is located on the ground floor of the West Building, in Gallery 10.
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