Title
Christ on the Cross, c. 1600-1610. Creator: El Greco (Spanish, 1541-1614).
Caption
Christ on the Cross, c. 1600-1610. 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 colours 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.
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Reference
HRM19F75_336
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License type
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Available size
58,3Mb (3,6Mb) / 11,5in x 19,8in / 3435 x 5929 (300dpi)