El Greco, 1579 - The Assumption of the Virgin - fine art print

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This painting was the central element of the altarpiece that was El Greco’s first major Spanish commission and first large public work. After living in Venice and Rome, where he absorbed the late Mannerist style, the Greek-born artist settled in the Spanish city of Toledo in 1577 to work on the high altar of the convent church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo. The church of this ancient Cistercian convent was being rebuilt as the funerary chapel of a pious widow, Doña Maria de Silva. In El Greco’s grand de-sign, the Assumption was surmounted by a representation of the Trinity and was flanked by two side altars decorated with paintings of the Adoration of the Shepherds and the Resurrection. The visionary imagery of the Assumption and the Trinity aptly expressed the patron’s hope of salvation. Here the Virgin floats upward, supported on the crescent moon that is symbolic of her purity, while the boldly modeled heads of the crowd of apostles gathered around her empty tomb express amazement and concern. The vigor of El Greco’s broad brushstrokes proclaims the confident achievement of this early work, as does this artist’s large signature in Greek, painted as though affixed to the surface of the picture at the lower right.

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The 16th century artwork was painted by the male painter El Greco. The 440 years old work of art measures the size: 403,2 × 211,8 cm (158 3/4 × 83 3/4 in) Weight with frame: 331 lbs/ 150,139 kg. Oil on canvas was applied by the painter as the medium of the work of art. The artwork has the following inscription: inscribed on paper at lower right in Greek: (Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Cretan, displayed this in 1577). It can be viewed in in the Art Institute Chicago's art collection. With courtesy of - Art Institute Chicago (license: public domain). Creditline of the artwork: Gift of Nancy Atwood Sprague in memory of Albert Arnold Sprague. Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait with a side ratio of 1 : 2, which implies that the length is 50% shorter than the width. El Greco was a male architect, artist, painter, sculptor, whose style can be attributed primarily to Mannerism. The Mannerist painter was born in 1541 in Kriti region, Greece, region, administrative division and died at the age of 73 in 1614 in Toledo, Toledo province, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.

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