• Thumbnail for The Penitent Saint Peter
    The Penitent Saint Peter is a painting by El Greco. It is part of the collection of the San Diego Museum of Art and depicts a praying Saint Peter, one...
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  • Thumbnail for Saint Peter and Saint Paul (El Greco, Barcelona)
    Saint Peter and Saint Paul is a painting by the Cretan-Spanish artist El Greco. The work was completed between 1590 and 1600. It is currently on display...
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  • Thumbnail for The Tears of Saint Peter (El Greco, Barnard Castle)
    The Tears of Saint Peter or Penitent Saint Peter is a 1580-1589 painting by El Greco, now in the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, UK. It shows Peter the...
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  • The Penitent Thief, also known as the Good Thief, Wise Thief, Grateful Thief, or Thief on the Cross, is one of two unnamed thieves in Luke's account of...
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    Saint Peter (died AD 64–68), also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and...
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  • Thumbnail for The Tears of Saint Peter (El Greco, Oslo)
    The Tears of Saint Peter, Penitent Saint Peter or St. Peter Repentant is a c.1590 painting by El Greco, now in the National Museum of Art, Architecture...
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  • Thumbnail for Tobit and Anna with the Kid
    van Swanenburg's print of the penitent Saint Peter after a painting by Abraham Bloemaert has also been cited as a source for the figure of Tobit. Indeed...
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  • Thumbnail for Opening of the Fifth Seal
    The Opening of the Fifth Seal (or The Fifth Seal of the Apocalypse or The Vision of Saint John) was painted in the last years of El Greco's life for a...
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  • Thumbnail for Confraternity of penitents
    the Catholic Church. Members of the confraternities of penitents practice mortification of the flesh through fasting, the use of the discipline, the wearing...
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    distinguished as Pelagia of Antioch, Pelagia the Penitent, and Pelagia the Harlot, was a Christian saint and hermit in the 4th or 5th century. Her feast day was...
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  • Thumbnail for Saint Peter and Saint Paul (El Greco, Saint Petersburg)
    Saint Peter and Saint Paul is a 1587-1592 painting by El Greco, one of several versions of the theme by the artist - others are now in Barcelona and Stockholm...
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  • Thumbnail for Penitent Magdalene (Donatello)
    revised dating of the Saint John had knock-on consequences for a far more celebrated wooden figure, the Penitent Magdalene long in the Florence Baptistery...
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  • Thumbnail for Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis de Paul, and Saint Peter penitent
    Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis de Paul, and Saint Peter penitent is an anamorphic painting in three parts, each with the portrait of a different...
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  • Thumbnail for The Tears of Saint Peter (El Greco, Mexico City)
    The Tears of Saint Peter or Penitent Saint Peter is a c.1587-1596 painting by El Greco. It is similar to other works on the same subject by the artist...
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    View of Toledo (category Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
    because of the similarities to El Greco's other piece, Saint Joseph and the Christ Child. Wethey backs up this claim because Saint Joseph and the Christ Child...
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  • Thumbnail for Penitent Magdalene (El Greco)
    Penitent Magdalene is a 1576–1578 painting by El Greco depicting Mary Magdalene, produced during his first period in Toledo and showing the major influence...
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  • Thumbnail for Saint Andrew and Saint Francis
    Saint Andrew and Saint Francis is a 1595-1598 painting by El Greco, produced in Toledo, Spain and now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. It shows Andrew...
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    like the rope around Christ's wrists, from the account in the Meditations on the Passion of Jesus Christ by Saint Bonaventure. The placement of the tormentors...
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  • Thumbnail for The Saviour (El Greco)
    Madrid, Spain. It shows Christ as the saviour of the world, represented by the globe beneath his left hand. It draws on the traditions of Byzantine art whilst...
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  • Thumbnail for Christ and the Penitent Sinners
    The painting depicts Jesus Christ with an adoring Mary Magdalene, Saint Peter (who denied Christ three times), Dismas (the penitent thief from the Crucifixion)...
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  • Thumbnail for Saint Peter in Penitence (Ribera)
    Saint Peter in Penitence or The Penitent Saint Peter is a 1630s painting of Peter the Apostle by Jusepe de Ribera, now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico...
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    El Greco (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
    Christ Healing the Blind Christ as Saviour Laocoön The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest The Stigmatization of St Francis Saint Jerome Saint Jerome Portrait...
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  • Thumbnail for The Immaculate Conception (El Greco, Toledo)
    it was the schematic centerpiece and was accompanied by the Visitation. Two other probable companions are the renditions of Saint Peter and Saint Ildefonso...
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    brother, and the Gospel is the story of the penitent woman anointing Jesus's feet. The "composite Magdalene" was never accepted by the Eastern Orthodox...
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  • Thumbnail for The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
    and the crowning point of the triangle formed by the figures of the Madonna and Saint John the Baptist in the traditional Orthodox composition of the Deesis...
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    the Virgin and Child to Saint Hyacinth". Barnes Collection Online — El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos): Apparition of the Virgin and Child to Saint Hyacinth...
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    El Greco Museum, Toledo (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    Evangelist Saint James the Greater Saint Bartholomew Saint Thaddeus (Jude) Saint Simon Saint Matthew Saint Thomas Saint Philip Saint James the Less Saint Andrew...
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    2022). The title is a reference to the man who inspired the composition, Dominikos Theotokópoulos (known as El Greco, "The Greek"; 1541–1614), the painter...
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  • Thumbnail for Churches Militant, Penitent, and Triumphant
    days: All Saints' Day on November 1 (the Church Triumphant) and All Souls' Day on November 2 (the Church Penitent). These terms are not used in the Catechism...
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    from the Life of the Virgin, and the Coronation of the Virgin. These "Marian" subjects were especially promoted by the Cistercian Order and Saint Bernard...
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