cma-european-art: Christ on the Cross, El Greco , c. 1600-1610, Cleveland Museum of Art: European Pa
cma-european-art: Christ on the Cross, El Greco , c. 1600-1610, Cleveland Museum of Art: European Painting and SculptureEl 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.Size: 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.)Medium: oil on canvashttps://clevelandart.org/art/1952.222 -- source link