About this title: "The Burial of the Count of Orgaz" is one of El Greco's most famous paintings, and a key work in the Mannerist tradition. Painted between 1586 and 1588 in the church of Santo Tome in Toledo, it was commissioned to commemorate the funeral of Don Gonzalo Ruiz Toledo, Lord of Orgaz. At this legendary event which had taken place two and a half centuries earlier, the congregation saw St Stephen and St Augustine descend from heaven to place the body in its tomb. El Greco not only painted the scene as it was described, but turned it into a mystical vision of Heaven and Earth, with the Virgin and ...
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Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thames and Hudson, NY
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780500237021ISBN:0500237026
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Hardcover in dust jacket., dj price-clipped, no other flaws.; 143pp., 62 color plates.; detailed monograph on el greco's masterpiece, the burial of count orgaz. contains numerous full-page color details. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, United Kingdom
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780500237021ISBN:0500237026
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 0500237026 SHIPS TO USA ONLY, NO PRIORITY PLEASE. Prev. owner's name and a date neatly on flyleaf, otherwise tight and clean. 62 color illustrations. Study of "The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, " painted for the church of Santo Tome in Toledo. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, [, NY
Date Published: 1995]
Description: With an introductory essay and brief biography of the artist by Francisco Calvo Serraller. 62 colour illustrations reproduces the famous painting in all its glory, both as a whole and in a series of enlarged details. Hardcover. Demy 4to. 143pp+. Fine in near fine dust jacket. read more
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