Christ, on the Cross, expresses a supreme dignity; this because of his simplicity, his humanity and the admirable absence of both physical beauty and ugliness. This body is not ugly, as in El Greco; much less is it beautiful, as it is in Francisco Goya. It is not athletic, as in Michelangelo; it is not a spectre, as in certain primitives. It is noble, and it is all. There is no face, because it is hidden by the hair. There is no blood, to quench the thirst for compassion. He has no men around him, their faces showing passions. He is accompanied by neither landscape, nor sky, nor meteorological or prodigious phenomena. He was a just Man, and He is dead. In His supreme dignity, He is alone." Thus, in 1939, before this placid reduction of the divine to the human, one of the greatest critics of the Baroque, E. D'Ors, paid homage.