Saint Lawrence's Vision of the Madonna and Child
1577 painting by El Greco
Saint Lawrence's Vision Artist El Greco Year 1577 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 119 cm × 102 cm (47 in × 40 in) Location Colegio del Cardenal, Monforte de Lemos
Saint Lawrence's Vision of the Virgin Mary El Greco , produced early in his Toledo period . It was commissioned by Rodrigo de Castro , inquisitor, archbishop of Seville , bishop of Cuenca and bishop of Zamora , making it one of the artist's few private commissions from that time. It is now in the Colegio del Cardenal in Monforte de Lemos .
Its composition and style show the influence of Titian and Michelangelo which the painter had picked up during his time in Italy. It shows Saint Lawrence as a deacon in a finely brocaded dalmatic , holding the grill on which he was martyred and looking upwards to a vision of the Madonna and Child on a cloud.
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(in Spanish) ÁLVAREZ LOPERA, José, El Greco , Madrid, Arlanza, 2005, Biblioteca «Descubrir el Arte», (colección «Grandes maestros»). ISBN 84-9550-344-1 .SCHOLZ-HÄNSEL, Michael, El Greco , Colonia, Taschen , 2003. ISBN 978-3-8228-3173-1 .
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