El Greco : the burial of the Count of Orgaz / Francisco Calvo Serraller.
By: Calvo Serraller, F. (Francisco)
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Contributor(s): Greco.
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BookPublisher: London ; New York : Thames and Hudson, 1995Description: 143 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0500237026.Subject(s): Greco, 1541?-1614. Burial of Count Orgaz | Greco, 1541?-1614 -- Criticism and interpretation | Orgaz, Gonzalo Ruiz de Toledo, conde de, -1312 -- Death and burial -- Pictorial works | Mannerism (Art) -- Spain | Artists -- Spain -- BiographyDDC classification: 759.6 GRE
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 759.6 GRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00054332 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz is one of El Greco's most famous paintings, and a key work in the Mannerist tradition. Painted between 1586 and 1588 in the church of Santo Tome in Toledo, it was commissioned to commemorate the funeral of Don Gonzalo Ruiz Toledo, Lord of Orgaz. At this legendary event which had taken place two and a half centuries earlier, the congregation saw St Stephen and St Augustine descend from heaven to place the body in its tomb. El Greco not only painted the scene as it was described, but turned it into a mystical vision of Heaven and Earth, with the Virgin and John the Baptist interceding before Christ, surrounded by saints and angels.
Includes bibliographical references.
Translation of: El Greco: El entierro del conde de Orgaz by Jenifer Wakelyn.