De Cruce Christi representationes in aureum saeculum: Valencia, Patón, Calderón Et AlII

The representations and the use of the Cross of Christ have been multiple and varied through religion and culture’s history. The article presented here focuses in a historical trajectory, especially in the xvii century. During that century, there is a display of attempts to regulate the Christian symbol par excellence by the state’s high institutions and some religious theorists bothered by the impact of its daily use