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. Object Type: painting. Genre: religious art. Date: 1600. Place of creation: Spain, 17th century. Dimensions: 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 canvas. Depicted People: Jesus. Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art. Clevelandart 1952.222
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