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El Greco
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Burial of the Count de Orgaz
El Greco's The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, explained
El Greco: Christ Healing the Blind El Greco: Portrait of Giulio Glovio El Greco: The Assumption of the Virgin El Greco: Adoration of the Shepherds El Greco: View of Toledo Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, oil painting attributed to El Greco; in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg. El Greco: Pentecost
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El Greco's The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, explained
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz immortalizes a local legend in Toledo,...
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Burial of the Count de Orgaz
Burial of the Count de Orgaz, oil on canvas by El Greco, 1586–88; in the...
Chuch of Santo Tome, Toledo, Spain/SuperStock
El Greco: Christ Healing the Blind
Christ Healing the Blind, oil on canvas by El Greco, c. 1570; in the Metropolitan...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1978), www.metmuseum.org
El Greco: Portrait of Giulio Glovio
Portrait of Giulio Clovio, oil on canvas by El Greco, c. 1571–72; in the Museo e...
SCALA/Art Resource, New York
El Greco: The Assumption of the Virgin
The Assumption of the Virgin, oil on canvas by El Greco, 1577–79; in the...
The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Nancy Atwood Sprague in memory of Albert Arnold Sprague, reference no. 1906.99 (CC0)
El Greco: Adoration of the Shepherds
Adoration of the Shepherds, oil on canvas by El Greco, c. 1605–10; in the...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Rogers Fund, 1905 (05.42); www.metmuseum.org
El Greco: View of Toledo
View of Toledo, oil on canvas by El Greco, c. 1599–1600; in the Metropolitan...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929, (29.100.6), www.metmuseum.org
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, oil painting attributed to El Greco; in the Hermitage,...
Archivo Mas, Barcelona
El Greco: Pentecost
Pentecost, oil on canvas by El Greco, c. 1600; in the Prado, Madrid. This...
Gianni Dagli Orti—REX/Shutterstock.com
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