ATTRIBUTED TO ORAZIO BORGIANNI (ROME C.1575-1616)

Orazio Borgianni was largely self-taught and his earliest works are executed in a Mannerist style. In Rome he began incorporated elements of Caravaggism into his style. He travelled to Spain around 1598, where he forged relationships with Spanish patrons and his assimilated elements of the greatest Spanish artist of the previous generation, El Greco, into his artwork. Marco Gallo, proposes that the present Crucifixion is related to numerous compositions produced by El Greco and his workshop, but its late date may reflect Borgainni’s continued connection to Spanish painters after his return to Italy (loc. cit.).