Christ Carrying the Cross by El Greco: what it depicts
Christ Carrying the Cross by El Greco
He is not carrying it
The title says carrying, but look at the hands: he holds the cross the way you would hold something you had chosen, lightly, almost tenderly, and his eyes are lifted and full of tears. There is no crowd, no road, no soldiers — only the crown of thorns, the red robe, and the long fingers on the wood. El Greco painted this composition many times in Toledo, and it became the standard Spanish image of the acceptance of the Passion.
The Lehman Collection
This version is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from the Robert Lehman Collection.
About this print
Made from the Met's open-access photograph, 3,890 pixels tall.
Sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.1.145 · Wikimedia Commons
Who Made It
Created by El Greco. Painted in 1580. Oil on Canvas.
More like this: Passion of Christ, Jesus Christ, Renaissance
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Image: source, Public domain (work) · CC0 photograph, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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