Explore the legendary golden Crown of the Andes, a life-size sculpture featured in Holy Week processions never before exhibited outside of the Spanish town of Navalcarnero, and an illusionistic rendering of a lamb bound for sacrifice and presented as the object of prayer.

Browse the images here to see the religious visual culture of 17th-century Spain and Latin America through the eyes of artists such as El Greco, Juan Sánchez Barba, Francisco Zurbarán, Cristobal Villalpando and others, who were charged with the creative task of making religious imagery that was useful, truthful and moving.