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GRECO, El: The Adoration of the Name of Jesus

GRECO, El
🖼 The Adoration of the Name of Jesus, 1578-80
Oil and tempera on pine panel (excluding the painted black border)
55.1 × 33.8 cm
London, United Kingdom

Celestial light fractures through heavenly clouds as saints and angels surge upward in El Greco's characteristic elongated forms. This visionary work merges Counter-Reformation devotion with Mannerist spirituality, transforming religious ecstasy into pure visual transcendence through distorted perspective and otherworldly color.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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