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The Burial of the Count of Orgaz is a painting by El Greco, a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. Widely considered among his finest works, it illustrates a popular local legend of his time. An exceptionally large painting, it is very clearly divided into two sections, heave...

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The Artist: El Greco

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Study of a Head (1595) is a oil on canvas painting by the Spanish Renaissance painter, sculptor and architect El Greco. Likenesses have a special place in El Greco's work. Although he was primarily interested in painting religious subjects for ecclesiastical commissions, he also produced some outsta...

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The sitter, Antonio de Covarrubias y Leiva (1524-1602) was the son of a Toledan architect, the master of works at Toledo Cathedral, who also designed the façade of the Alcázar in the city. Antonio studied law at the University of Salamanca. He became a noted jurist, antiquarian, philosopher, poet, h...

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Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) was born in Candia (Iráklion), Crete, in 1541, but little is known about his early life. He took up his vocation as a painter in Crete but around 1568 was in Venice, where he evidently studied the works of Jacopo Bassano, Tintoretto, Titian, and Veronese. Arriving...

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Christ on the Cross Adored by Donors (1580) is a oil on canvas painting by the Spanish Renaissance painter, sculptor and architect El Greco. A priest and a nobleman, probably the patrons who commissioned the painting, are shown praying before Christ on the cross. El Greco has included realistic deta...

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St. Andrew and St. Francis (1595) is a oil on canvas painting by the Spanish Renaissance painter, sculptor and architect El Greco. El Greco would have been aware of the grand series of pairs of Saints painted by Navarrete for the chapels of the Church of the Escorial, the commission interrupted by t...

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'Painted for the high altar of the Colegio de Doña Maria, Madrid. The retable no longer exists, and the paintings are dispersed. The subjects of the paintings of the retable are not recorded, but it is assumed that they illustrated the Life of Christ. For reasons of size, style, and subject matter, ...

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