The Crucifixion
Artist: Pedro Orrente (Spanish, 1580–1645)
Original Dimensions: 48 3/4" x 40 1/2"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (ca. 1625–30) "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." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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