El Greco, 1614 - Saint Ildefonso - fine art print

In 1614 El Greco made this masterpiece. The over 400 years old original had the size: 112 x 65,8 cm. Oil on canvas was applied by the Greek, Hellenic artist as the medium of the work of art. Furthermore, the work of art can be viewed in in the National Gallery of Art's digital art collection, which is the museum of the US-American nation that preserves, collects, exhibits, and fosters an understanding of works of art. We are glad to reference that the masterpiece, which belongs to the public domain is being supplied with courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington.: . Besides this, the alignment is portrait with a ratio of 9 : 16, meaning that the length is 45% shorter than the width. The architect, artist, painter, sculptor El Greco was a European artist, whose style was primarily Mannerism. The artist lived for a total of 73 years, born in the year 1541 in Kriti region, Greece, region, administrative division and deceased in the year 1614 in Toledo, Toledo province, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.

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What does the original description of the National Gallery of Art say about the work of art painted by El Greco? (© Copyright - National Gallery of Art - National Gallery of Art)

Ildefonso, whose name is more familiar in its Castilian form, Alfonso, was appointed archbishop of Toledo in 657 and later became that city's patron saint. He was especially famed for his book defending the purity of the Virgin, which he was said to have written at her dictation.

El Greco represented the saint in a richly decorated room, seated at a writing table furnished with costly silver desk ornaments consistent with the style of the artist's own time. The contemporary setting notwithstanding, an otherworldly aura pervades the room as the saint pauses in his writing and, as though awaiting the next word, gazes attentively at the source of his inspiration, a statuette of the Madonna. The combination of strangely compacted space, the chalky highlights that play over the saint's sleeves and the velvet tablecover, and, not least, Ildefonso's fervent expression, remove the scene to a spiritual realm.

El Greco's image of the Virgin resembles an actual wooden figure that Ildefonso is said to have kept in his oratory until it was given by him to the church of the Hospital of Charity in the small Spanish town of Illescas, near Toledo. The statuette is preserved there today together with El Greco's larger version of Saint Ildefonso.

[Source: NGA]

More about Saint Ildefonso on Wikipedia: Ildefonsus