El espolio el greco burial of count
El espolio el greco burial of count
El greco santorini!
El Expolio (The Disrobing of Christ). Maximum representation of the dramatism in El Greco’s paintings
In the spring of 1577 Domenikos Theotokopoulos arrived in Toledo, just a little bit later, on June 2, he received from García de Loaysa 13.600 maravedies (currency at the time) to start painting “El Expolio” and there began the story of the Cretan painter in Toledo.
Together with “The burial of the Count of Orgaz”, this is the most important work of this painter, the crowning of all his pictoric work and to which we devote these lines today.
Picture of the masterwork “El expolio de Cristo” at the Cathedral of Toledo, once restored at the Museo del Prado in Madrid
As we were saying, in 1577 Toledo’s Cathedral Canonry asked the Cretan painter for a canvas representing the disrobing of Christ before being crucified.
The painting was intended to be at the sacristy wardrobe (today at the high altar) where the disrobing achieved great symbolism.
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