Christ Healing the Blind
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
€39,90
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
Christ Healing the Blind, painted around 1570 by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) during his formative years in Venice and Rome, depicts the biblical miracle from the Gospels in which Christ restores sight to a blind man before an assembly of onlookers. Painted early in the artist's career, before his move to Toledo and the development of his celebrated late style, the work reveals El Greco absorbing the lessons of the Venetian masters he studied and, by some accounts, worked alongside.
The composition's deep architectural perspective, animated crowd of onlookers, and rich Venetian color reflect the influence of Titian and Tintoretto, even as El Greco's own dramatic instincts and interest in gesture and expression are already evident. The painting stands as a fascinating record of the artist's stylistic evolution, bridging his Byzantine training in Crete and the radically personal manner he would later forge in Spain.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction is printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) |
| Year | ca. 1570 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 47 x 57 1/2 in. (119.4 x 146.1 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Renaissance |
