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Date : approx. between 1600 and 1610
Material : Oil on canvas
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European Painting
Painting
Area related
Tolède (Spain)
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Purchased by a Spanish family at a flea market around 1950, it remained in their possession until recently.
El Greco left his native Crete to seek fame in Venice and Rome before settling in Toledo, Spain. There he was free to develop a highly expressive personal style, manipulating figure proportions, light effects, and facial expressions. His style appealed to the ardent religious spirit of his adopted city because it was particularly well suited to representing the divine. In this painting for private devotion, Christ's languid figure is revealed by a flickering supernatural light as storm clouds darken the sky. The painter appealed to the viewer's emotions by concentrating on Christ's tearful, longing communion with God the Father at the moment of his death.
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