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accession number: 1952.222
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Christ on the Cross, c. 1600–1610. El Greco (Spanish, 1541–1614). Oil on canvas; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1952.222
title: Christ on the Cross
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creation date: c. 1600–1610
creation date earliest: 1600
creation date latest: 1610
current location: 212 Baroque Painting and Sculpture
creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund
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culture: Spain, 17th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Spanish before 1800
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* El Greco (Spanish, 1541–1614) - artist
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measurements: 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.)
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inscription: Inscription on plaque at top of cross, in Hebrew, Greek and Latin: Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00
In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).
title: Religious Art
opening date: 1964-12-15T05:00:00
Religious Art. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (December 15, 1964-January 10, 1965).
title: Masterworks from The Phillips Collection
opening date: 2005-02-20T00:00:00
Masterworks from The Phillips Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-May 29, 2005).
title: El Greco: Ambition and Defiance
opening date: 2019-10-14T04:00:00
El Greco: Ambition and Defiance. Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais, Paris cedex 12, France (organizer) (October 14, 2019-February 10, 2020); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (March 5-October 19, 2020) https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/2939/el-greco-ambition-and-defiance.
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Exposición del Antiguo Madrid, Sociedad Espanola de Amigos del Arte, Madrid, Spain (1926). (lent by Salesas Neuvas, Madrid)
* Religious Art from Byzantium to Chagall, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (December 15, 1964-January, 10 1965).
* El Greco of Toledo, Museo del Prado, Madrid, (Apr. 1 - June 6, 1982); National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (July 2 - Sept. 6, 1982); Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, (Sept. 26 - Nov. 21, 1982); Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Tex., (Dec. 12, 1982 - Feb. 6, 1983).
* Holy Image, Holy Space: Icons and Frescoes from Greece, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 9-October 22, 1989).
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PROVENANCE
Convent of the Salesas, Madrid, Spain
date: By 1815-1952
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Tomas Harris, London, England
date: 1952
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(Rudolf Heinemann, New York, NY)
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(M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: -1952
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1952-
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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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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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page number: p. 41
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Cossío, Manuel B. El Greco. Madrid: V. Suárez, 1908.
page number: p. 367, no. 109
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Camon Aznar, Jos. Domenico Greco. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1950.
page number: I, 646, fig. 491, and II, 1366, no. 178
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Francis, Henry S. “A Crucifixion by El Greco.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 40, no. 1 (1953).
page number: pp. 4-7
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page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 422
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n77
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page number: cat. no. 50
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page number: p. 37
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page number: p. 203, no. 1387
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page number: Portfolio 3: Expressionism, p. 26
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Wethey, Harold E. El Greco and His School. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1962.
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Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, and Your Neighbor's Faith (Group). Religious Art from Byzantium to Chagall: [Catalogue of] a Loan Exhibition, Dec. 13, 1964 to Jan. 10, 1965. 1965.
page number: cat. no. 35
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 130
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n154
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page number: Reproduced: p. 130
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n154
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page number: cat. no. 6Ic, illus. p. 101
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page number: p. 39
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page number: 500
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 149
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n169
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Mentioned: p. 496-498; Reproduced: p. 497
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Greco, and Jonathan Brown. El Greco of Toledo. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1982.
page number: pp. 249-250, repr. p. 250, repr. color plate 58
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page number: Reproduced: p.137, no. 34
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