Christ Holding a Chalice and Cross (recto); Resurrected Christ and Lamb of God (verso)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Christ Holding a Chalice and Cross (recto); Resurrected Christ and Lamb of God (verso)

Alonso Cano (Spanish, 1601–1667) · 1666

pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The disk rising above the chalice in Christ's hand represents the eucharistic wafer. Designs were impressed onto these disks of unleavened bread using special wafer irons, some of which have made it into museum collections.

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