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Man of Sorrows — Luis de Morales (called El Divino)
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Man of Sorrows

Luis de Morales (called El Divino) (Spanish, about 1509–1586)
Date c. 1560
Collection Minneapolis Institute of Art
Subject Crowning with Thorns
Season Holy Week
Master 8,633 px
License Public domain

Sizes

18×24 in$140
sheet 18×24 in · image 17×24 in · archival margin · 360 dpi
24×36 in$190
sheet 24×36 in · image 24×33.9 in · archival margin · 255 dpi
32×48 in$340
sheet 32×48 in · image 32×45.2 in · archival margin · 191 dpi
40×60 in$480
sheet 40×60 in · image 40×56.5 in · archival margin · 153 dpi
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About this painting

He is not suffering; he is remembering. Morales lifts Christ out of the narrative altogether — legs crossed, chin in hand, seated among the instruments that did the work: the column he was tied to, the cross he carried and was nailed to. The pose is a thinker's and the melancholy is regal. Minneapolis reads the panel as it was meant to be used: Christ meditating on his own Passion becomes the model and the mirror for whoever prays in front of it. The devotion is not to watch the pain but to sit with it.

Sources: Minneapolis Institute of Art, 'Man of Sorrows', Luis de Morales, accession 62.24, The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund; object page read 2026-08-27.

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Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 8,633 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.