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The Spanish Inquisition is, without a doubt, one of the darkest examples of man's capacity for inhumanity. The Catholic Church persecuted, tortured, burned, and murdered people of all faiths from Peru to Holland. Yet, even in the face of such institutionalized evil and bloody cultural imperialism, art was created. The art of the Inquisition period is stark, hyper-real, and graphic. It very much reflects the violence and religious fear of the era, with zealous, almost medical depictions of wounded saints and the crucifixion. The religious icons of the Inquisition are spindly, dying creatures with pale, exsanguinated skin and red, weeping wounds. Francisco de Zurbarán, known as "the Spanish Caravaggio" for his use of intense but realistic chiaroscuro technique he was the master of, depicted clergy, saints, and martyrs with strikingly human visages. Beatific gazes and stoic perfection are replaced with weariness, worry, and pain in much of his work. Suffering, torment, and exhaustion were the emotions of the Inquisition within Spain and his figures wear the feelings in every crease on their faces and downward cast of their eye. The Meaning of Sacred Symbols in Paintings. Most prominently featured symbols and their meaning:
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