Christ Healing The Blind Man Painting

1570 medium oil on panel location gemäldegalerie alte meister dresden germany dimensions 47 x 57 5 in 119 4 x 146 cm famous paintings by el greco the disrobing of christ 1577 1579 opening of the fifth seal 1608 1614 dormition of the virgin 1565 1566 the burial of the count.
Christ healing the blind man painting. He was then commissioned to produce 23 paintings for the king s chapel at frederiksborg palace. Bloch displays many of life s usual suspects in this painting. Light is emanating from christ and shining upon the blind man s face. Sebastiano ricci was one of the key figures involved in the transition of venetian and indeed european painting from full blown baroque to elegant and airy rococo.
The upper left portion of the composition is unfinished. Christ healing the blind man was created in 1560 by el greco in mannerism late renaissance style. The picture was owned by king george ii s physician dr richard mead and may have been painted as a gift perhaps from a grateful patient. On view at the met fifth avenue in gallery 958.
Woman at the well. The sermon on the mount. The painting s small size did not inhibit ricci s grand design. It is this tradition which.
Christ healing the blind man sebastiano ricci art funded 1994 dimensions 52 x 68 cm vendor whitfield fine art ltd. With unprecedented realism and uplifting vision carl bloch shows us the wonder of christ healing the blind man. Hans christian andersen. Healing of the blind man by jesus christ.
Christ healing the blind artist el greco year c. His strongest ties were with the venetian sixteenth century above all with veronese. It illustrates the gospel account of christ healing a blind man by anointing his eyes. Healing the blind man.
Being self educated in painting he developed his own highly classical style of painting religious subjects such as the artwork we are looking at today. The resurrection of christ. Jesus is about to touch. El greco painted two other versions of the subject and seems to have taken this one with him to spain.
The two figures in the foreground may be the blind man s parents. The vertically elongated canvas adds to the slight weirdness of the painting when we look at it. Suffer the children. By patrick werick december 14 2011 2 comments.
Christ at the cross.