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Christ on the Cross

c. 1600–1610
(Spanish, 1541–1614)
Spain, 17th century
oil on canvas
Framed: 221 x 144 x 10 cm (87 x 56 11/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 193 x 116 cm (76 x 45 11/16 in.)
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1952.222
Location: 212 Baroque Painting and Sculpture
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Description

El Greco (Spanish for "the Greek") was trained on his native island, Crete, as a painter of small-scale devotional images (icons). In the late 1560s he moved first to Venice, where he may have worked with Tintoretto (1518-1594), and then to Rome. Finally, he settled in Toledo, Spain. Tintoretto's influence is visible here in the colors and in the elongated figural proportions. The graphic depiction of blood, however, may reflect the Spanish interest in Christ's sufferings as a subject for meditation.
Christ on the Cross

Christ on the Cross

c. 1600–1610

El Greco

(Spanish, 1541–1614)
Spain, 17th century

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