Sculptor whose works are among the finest examples of polychromed wood sculpture created during the Baroque period.
His images are characterized by their emotional intensity, spiritual expresiveness and sense of dramatic gravity as well as by their illusionistic realism.
Many of his best known statues such as St. Veronica (1614) and the Pietà (1617) both of which are in the Museo Nacional de Escultura de Valladolid were once part of sculptural group for pasos or floats with scenes from the Passion which are carried by Spanish religious confraternities during Holy Week processions.
One of his iconographical innovations was that of depicting the dead Christ stretched out on a sheet a well-known example being at the Capuchin monastery of S. Cristo at El Pardo near Madrid (1605).
Besides devotional images and pasos Gregorio Hernández executed many altarpieces. Among the most omportant are those at S. Miguel (1606) and the Convento de las Huelgas (1616) in Valladolid, at the Colegiata de S. Pedro in Lerma (1615), at S. Miguel in Vitoria (1624-34) and the high altar for the cathedral at Plasencia (1624-34).
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