Christ on the Cross (Q60515970)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
religious art (Q2864737)
artist:
El Greco (Q301)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
main subject:
Crucifixion of Jesus (Q51636)
location of final assembly:
Spain (Q29)
depicts:
Jesus (Q302)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.222
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
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.
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