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The Burial of the Count of Orgaz is a large painting completed by El Greco in 1586 for the Church of Santo Tome in Toledo, where it remains. It represents a local legend in which Saints Stephen and Augustine descend to bury Gonzalo Ruiz de Toledo, while an upper heavenly realm opens above a gatherin...
The Disrobing of Christ, commonly called El Espolio, is an oil painting completed by El Greco in 1579 for Toledo Cathedral, where it remains in the sacristy. The composition places Christ in a vivid red robe at the center of a compressed crowd of soldiers and onlookers, while figures preparing the c...
El Greco's Adoration of the Shepherds, painted in oil on canvas around 1612 to 1614, is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Intended for the artist's funerary chapel in the church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo, it places the luminous Christ Child at the center of an intensely...
El Greco painted The Assumption of the Virgin in 1577 for the high altar of the church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo, his first major Spanish commission. The monumental oil painting shows Mary rising toward heaven amid angels while the apostles gather around her empty tomb below, linking ear...
The Trinity is an oil painting made by El Greco around 1577-1579 for the high altarpiece of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo. It represents God the Father supporting the dead Christ beneath the Holy Spirit, with angels gathered around them. The work combines Venetian color with elongated figures a...
El Greco's Resurrection was painted around 1597-1600 for the altarpiece of the Colegio de Doña María de Aragón in Madrid and is now in the Museo del Prado. It shows the risen Christ ascending above a crowded group of startled soldiers, whose bodies twist through a steep and compressed space. The elo...
El Greco's Pentecost was painted around 1597-1600 for the altarpiece of the Colegio de Doña María de Aragón in Madrid and is now in the Museo del Prado. It represents the Holy Spirit descending as a dove above the Virgin Mary, the apostles, and other gathered figures. Their elongated bodies, upward...
El Greco's Baptism of Christ is a large oil painting created around 1597-1600 for the high altarpiece of the Colegio de Doña María de Aragón in Madrid and now held by the Museo del Prado. Christ and John the Baptist occupy the earthly foreground, while angels and an opening heaven create a strongly...
El Greco's Annunciation in the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid is a religious painting from the artist's mature period in Toledo. It depicts the archangel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin Mary, accompanied by the dove of the Holy Spirit and a burst of heavenly light. El Greco distinguishe...
Version of El Greco's Disrobing of Christ held in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, derived from the master's celebrated original of 1577–1579 in Toledo Cathedral.
