Curatorial Notes
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.
Artwork Identification
Title Christ on the Cross
Title (PT) Cristo na Cruz
Title (ES) Cristo en la Cruz
Artist El Greco
Artist Bio El Greco (Spanish, 1541–1614)
Date c. 1600–1610
Work Type Painting
Location & Collection
Institution Cleveland Museum of Art
Source View Museum Page
License Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0
