Christ Crucified (Goya) facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Christ Crucified |
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| Spanish: Cristo crucificado | |
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| Artist | Francisco de Goya |
| Year | 1780 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 255 cm × 154 cm (100 in × 61 in) |
| Location | Museo del Prado, Madrid |
Christ Crucified (Spanish: Cristo crucificado) is a 1780 oil-on-canvas painting of the crucifixion of Jesus by Spanish Romantic painter Francisco de Goya. He presented it to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando as his reception piece as an academic painter. It now forms part of the permanent collection of the Prado Museum in Madrid.
History
As much as his contemporaries admired the painting, it fell out of fashion in the 20th century, when critics preferred to see Goya as a Romantic painter with little or no Catholic faith who paid scant attention to academic or religious painting. However, postmodernism has assessed Goya and his work as a whole, in all its facets, and has taken into account that this is a work in which Goya was still striving for professional prestige.
See also
In Spanish: Cristo crucificado (Goya) para niños
- List of works by Francisco Goya
