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    Allegory of the Camaldolese Order is a composition by El Greco and his workshop that survives in two paintings, one at the Instituto Valencia de Don Juan...
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    his pointing finger. The artist himself can be recognised directly above the raised hand of a knight of the Order of Santiago. The painting has a chromatic...
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    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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    The Disrobing of Christ or El Expolio (Latin: Exspolĭum) is a painting by El Greco begun in the summer of 1577 and completed in the spring of 1579 for...
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    El Greco (category Burials in the Province of Toledo)
    such as the Allegory of the Holy League. By painting portraits of Michelangelo, Titian, Clovio and, presumably, Raphael in one of his works (The Purification...
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    El Greco (album) (category Cultural depictions of El Greco)
    general release, the track order was rearranged, three new tracks were added, and the album title was changed. Vangelis composed and arranged the album, and...
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    of Toledo (original title Vista de Toledo), is one of the two surviving landscapes painted by El Greco, along with View and Plan of Toledo. View of Toledo...
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  • El Greco (1541–1614) was a Cretan-born painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. El Greco left his birthplace for Venice in 1567, never...
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    scenes from the Life of the Virgin, and the Coronation of the Virgin. These "Marian" subjects were especially promoted by the Cistercian Order and Saint...
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    scholarship as La Gloria, The Dream of Philip II or Allegory of the Holy League. The piece depicts the nominal "adoration of the Holy Name of Jesus. Beside Philip...
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  • Thumbnail for Saint Martin and the Beggar (El Greco)
    Martin and the Beggar is a painting by the Greek mannerist painter El Greco, painted c. 1597–1599, that currently is in the collection of The National Gallery...
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    those of the Prado itself, suggest it may be a portrait of Juan de Silva y de Ribera, 3rd Marquis of Montemayor and warden of the Alcazar of Toledo. The experts...
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  • Thumbnail for Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple (El Greco, London)
    Driving the Money Changers from the Temple is a 1600 painting by El Greco, now in the National Gallery in London, England. It depicts the Cleansing of the Temple...
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  • Thumbnail for Saint John the Evangelist (El Greco, Madrid)
    Saint John the Evangelist is a c.1605 work by El Greco, produced towards the end of his time in Toledo, Spain. It now hangs in the Museo del Prado, to...
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    Toledo with the trompe l'oeil map of the city's streets. In the composition, El Greco also included an allegory of the Tagus River, a scene of the Virgin Mary...
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  • El Greco (2007 film) (category Films set in the 16th century)
    film about the life of the Greek painter of the Spanish Renaissance, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known worldwide as El Greco. Based on the fictionalised...
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  • manner of distorting proportions in order to compensate for distance from the eye as responsible for creating monstrous forms. El Greco was averse to the very...
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    front of a dark background. He holds brushes and a palette in his hands. The pictorial style is consistent with other Venetian painting. List of works...
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    El Greco Museum, Toledo (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    much of his life in Toledo, having been born in Fodele, Crete. It is one of the National Museums of Spain and it is attached to the Ministry of Culture...
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    Laocoön (El Greco) (category Paintings in the National Gallery of Art)
    Art in Washington, D.C.. The painting depicts the Greek and Roman mythological story of the deaths of Laocoön, a Trojan priest of Poseidon, and his two sons...
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    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 also...
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    Holy Trinity (El Greco) (category Paintings of the Holy Trinity)
    the Prado Museum in Madrid. It shows God the Father holding the dead body of God the Son, both under the dove of the Holy Spirit. The anatomy of the figures...
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    shows the vision of the Virgin and Child before Saint Hyacinth of Poland on the feast day marking the Assumption. This painting belonging to the Memorial...
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  • Thumbnail for The Immaculate Conception (El Greco, Toledo)
    The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception is a painting of the Immaculate Conception by El Greco. The work on the painting began in 1607 and was completed...
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  • Thumbnail for Adoration of the Shepherds (El Greco, Madrid)
    The Adoration of the Shepherds is a painting of the traditional subject which was painted during the last year of El Greco's life. The painting is a work...
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    of Siena is a 1603 work by El Greco. It is owned by the Museo del Prado but displayed at the El Greco Museum in Toledo, Spain. Showing Bernardino of Siena...
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    Saint Andrew and Saint Francis (category Paintings of Andrew the Apostle)
    now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. It shows Andrew the Apostle on the left, holding the diagonal cross on which he was martyred, with Francis of Assisi...
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  • Thumbnail for Saint James the Great (El Greco)
    James the Great is a 1610 painting of James the Great by El Greco, now in the Museo del Prado. The painting is key to Gregorio Marañón's theory that the painter...
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    leria-on-line/obra/fabula/ "Fable". Prado Museum. Retrieved 24 July 2020. "An Allegory (Fabula)". National Galleries Scotland. Retrieved 24 July 2020....
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  • Thumbnail for Healing of the Man Born Blind (El Greco, Dresden)
    Healing of the Man Born Blind is a painting of the healing of the man born blind by the Greek painter El Greco, produced in 1567 during his time in Venice...
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