The Crucifixion ca. 1625–30 Pedro Orrente Spanish In response to Christ's exclamation, a bystander fetches a sponge to hold to his lips on the end of a cane. Saint John stands below the cross; the Virgin Mary and two companions arrive; three soldiers at left gamble for Christ's tunic. The figure on the ladder is a particularly brilliant narrative Orrente spent time in Venice and Rome. Upon his return to Spain he worked in Toledo, where he knew El Greco, whose work must suddenly have looked old-fashioned compared to the new naturalism of Caravaggesque painting. This is the f
The Crucifixion ca. 1625–30 Pedro Orrente Spanish In response to Christ's exclamation, a bystander fetches a sponge to hold to his lips on the end of a cane. Saint John stands below the cross; the Virgin Mary and two companions arrive; three soldiers at left gamble for Christ's tunic. The figure on the ladder is a particularly brilliant narrative Orrente spent time in Venice and Rome. Upon his return to Spain he worked in Toledo, where he knew El Greco, whose work must suddenly have looked old-fashioned compared to the new naturalism of Caravaggesque painting. This is the finest of a much-repeated The Crucifixion 652416
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