In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
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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El Greco — Christ on the Cross
El Greco — Christ on the Cross
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo — Christ on the Cross
Francisco de Zurbarán — Crucifixion of Christ
Nicolás Enríquez — The Crucifixion (La crucifixión)
Christ on the Cross
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo — The Crucifixion
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) — Christ Carrying the Cr
Eugène Delacroix — Christ on the Cross
Jean-Jacques Henner — Christ on the cross
Edouard Manet — The Dead Christ with Angels
Jacques-Louis David — Christ on the Cross
