The Crucifixion

ca. 1625–30

Not on view

Orrente traveled to Venice and Rome before working in Toledo, where he knew El Greco. The younger artist adopted El Greco’s high-pitched palette and penchant for exaggerated forms, but he combined them with a naturalism learned from paintings inspired by Caravaggio. Here, he filled a frequently depicted crucifixion subject with a series of anecdotal details.The dynamic but elegant figure on a ladder, for example, responds to Christ’s cry of thirst by using a cane to retrieve from a bystander a wet sponge that he will then hold to Christ’s lips.

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Title: The Crucifixion
Artist: Pedro Orrente (Spanish, Murcia 1580–1645 Valencia)
Date: ca. 1625–30
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 48 3/4 × 40 1/2 in. (123.8 × 102.9 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price and Fern and George Wachter Gifts, 2014
Object Number: 2014.228
Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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