Christ Carrying the Cross (El Greco, New York) acquired as part of his collection by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where it still hangs. It is on view in the Met museum's Gallery 818. Christ Carrying the Cross (El Greco, New York) Christ Carrying the Cross is a 1580 painting by El Greco, produced early in his Toledo period in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The picture depicts Christ's sacrifice for mankind as represented by his gentle embrace of the cross and his heavenward gaze. The artist frequently returned to the subject, as seen in works now in Madrid and Barcelona. Its
Posthumous fame of El Greco to Greco" and wrote a tribute to the Cretan-born artist. In 1998, the Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis published "El Greco", a symphonic album inspired by the artist. This album is an expansion of an earlier album by Vangelis, "Foros Timis Ston Greco" ("A Tribute to El Greco", Greek: "Φόρος Τιμής Στον Γκρέκο"). The life of the Cretan-born artist is the subject of "El Greco", a 2007 Greek-Spanish film directed by Yannis Smaragdis and starring British actor Nick Ashdon as El Greco. Posthumous fame of El Greco El Greco ( Castilian for "The Greek" ), 1541 – April 7,