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GRECO, El: The Coronation of the Virgin

GRECO, El
🖼 The Coronation of the Virgin, 1591
Oil on canvas
105 × 80 cm
Toledo, Spain

Elongated figures spiral upward in ethereal light, their bodies twisting in ecstatic devotion as Christ crowns Mary amid clouds. El Greco's visionary composition merges Byzantine tradition with Mannerist intensity, establishing the spiritual aesthetic that defined Counter-Reformation Spanish art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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