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Alonso Cano

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

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pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash

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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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