Question
In Lives of the Eminent Spanish Painters and Sculptors, Antonio Palomino described being so "thunderstruck" by a sculpture of this material "that it seemed irreverent not to be on my knees to look at it." For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this material commonly used to make polychrome sculptures in 17th-century Spain. Albrecht Dürer used this material to create a print of a rhinoceros.
ANSWER: wood [accept woodcut]
[10h] Palomino was struck by the lifelike drops of blood trickling down Christ’s face in this artist's polychrome sculpture of him carrying the cross. The Met holds a sculpture of the entombment of Christ by this sculptor, who learned art from her father Pedro.
ANSWER: Luisa Roldán [or La Roldana]
[10m] A polychrome sculpture by Roldán depicts this person clad in a gold dress as angels hold her upper body. Due to her conflation with an Egyptian saint, this person is unusually thin in a 15th-century wooden sculpture.
ANSWER: Mary Magdalene [or Mary of Magdala; accept The Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene; accept Penitent Magdalene; prompt on Mary]
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