Christ on the Cross
c. 1600–1610
El Greco
El Greco (Spanish, 1541–1614)
European Painting and Sculpture
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
- Maker/Artist
- Greco, El
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- 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.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Inscription on plaque at top of cross, in Hebrew, Greek and Latin: Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1952.222
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Hanna Fund
- Exhibitions
- In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Religious Art, Masterworks from The Phillips Collection, El Greco: Ambition and Defiance, <em>Exposición del Antiguo Madrid</em>, Sociedad Espanola de Amigos del Arte, Madrid, Spain (1926). (lent by Salesas Neuvas, Madrid), <em>Religious Art from Byzantium to Chagall</em>, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (December 15, 1964-January, 10 1965)., <em>El Greco of Toledo</em>, 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)., <em>Holy Image, Holy Space: Icons and Frescoes from Greece</em>, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 9-October 22, 1989).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 212 Baroque Painting and Sculpture
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