The Pieta Essay - 1214 Words

El Greco (â€Å"The Greek†), also known as Domenicos Theotocopulos, was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. El Greco was born in Crete in 1541, which was then a part of the Republic of Venice, and the center of Post-Byzantine art. He had trained and become a master within that tradition and an icon painter. Among his great artworks, I would like to draw attention to â€Å"Pietà   (The Lamentation of Christ)†, an oil painting. El Greco had painted this masterpiece about c.1565-70 in Italy, during the Cretan period. El Greco, at the age of 26, like other Greek artists had travelled to Venice and came under the influence of Titian and Tintoretto. During his stay in Italy, he widened his style with aspects of Mannerism and†¦show more content†¦It is a scene which is shown after Jesus was crucified, where his body has been removed from the cross and his friends and family mourn over his body. Many artists have focused this scene by just painting four people: the body of Christ, His mother, Saint Mary Magdalene and Joseph of Arimathea. El Greco’s Lamentation of Christ is â€Å"a translation in paint of Michelangelos late sculptured group of the Pietà   in Florence Cathedral, at the time in Rome. The pattern and the feeling are the same. The figures of the Dead Christ, His Mother, Saint Mary Magdalene and Joseph of Arimathea make one compact group. Michelangelo achieved this by his new treatment of form; El Greco by paint, by employing broader, more continuous passages of color. The more vivid colors of Rome combine with the richer palette of Venice to convey the intensity of expression demanded by the subject. The horizontal composition of Venice, more suited to a narrative type of subject than to the single image, is given up and is only very rarely found appropriate in Spain. Michelangelos Pietà   group was not the only source on which El Greco drew: the arrangement of Christs legs and his outspread arms, no less than the idea of viewing one of the two bearers of his body from the side and the other fro m behind, derive from Michelangelos drawing for Vittoria Colonna, in which, as in El Grecos painting, the Virgin is placed behind and above Christ.† (Web Gallery ofShow MoreRelatedMichelangelo Pieta Essay1407 Words   |  6 PagesMichelangelo’s Pieta Michelangelo once said, â€Å"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.† These words have uttered in my mind over and over again, as I read them; a man with such talent and grace in his work giving glory to a higher being, whose work is more divine than we can ever imagine. 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