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GRECO, El: The Adoration of the Name of Jesus

GRECO, El
🖼 The Adoration of the Name of Jesus, 1578-79
Oil on canvas
140 × 110 cm
Treviso, Italy

Ethereal light bathes elongated figures in dynamic, swirling composition as heavenly and earthly realms converge around Christ's name. El Greco's spiritual intensity and elongated forms revolutionized Spanish religious art, influencing Modernism centuries later.

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E. H. Gombrich
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