Unlike other 17^th century Spanish painters Zurbaran`s art, can be fully understood only if we consider how the realistic effect and the intensity of his paintings are expression of its content and spiritual message. His works are the pictorial expression of the great Spanish mystique of the century. The devotional themes represented were the expression of an inner journey, which had its roots in a deep experience of faith. In the Stockholm picture, in particular, we notice the painter`s ability in organizing the elements of the scene: the draping goes around the image as a frame, the face of Christ painted on the shroud shows solemnity and "pathos". But at the same time the picture is a meditation on Christ’s humanity, grief and mystery of redemption.

"Many say: who will let us see the good ? Lord, let your light shine on us" Psalm 4,7