# Christ in Agony on the Cross [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GRECO, El]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 104 x 62 cm ## Commentary The Christ in Agony on the Cross, with a view of Toledo. Another - and finer - version is in the Museum of Art, Cleveland, but with part of the landscape cut away. Christ on the Cross is left alone 'and there was a darkness over all the earth . . . and the sun was darkened, and the veil of the Temple was rent in the midst' \(St Luke, XXIII, 44-45\), and he commends his spirit to His Lord. El Greco was in sympathy with the apocalyptical atmosphere of the theme. From the time of the San José paintings, El Greco often chose to include a view of Toledo in his paintings. It is in no way a naturalistic view, but is transformed as all else in his painting. ## Related artworks - [A Boy Blowing on an Ember to Light a Candle \(Soplón\)]() - [A Lady in a Fur Wrap]() - [A Prelate]() - [A View of Toledo \(detail\)]() - [A View of Toledo]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Allegory of the Camaldolese Order]() - [Altarpiece]() - [An Allegory with a Boy Lighting a Candle in the Company of an Ape and a Fool \(Fábula\)]() - [An Allegory with a Boy Lighting a Candle in the Company of an Ape and a Fool \(Fábula\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()