The Doña María de Aragón Altarpiece was an altarpiece painted between 1596 and 1599 by El Greco for the chapel of the Colegio de la Encarnación (also known as the Colegio de doña María de Aragón) in Madrid. The college was secularised during Goya's lifetime and the altarpiece was dismantled. There has been much speculation over which paintings belonged to the work. The consensus view is that it consisted of six large canvases and a seventh, now lost. Five of those six canvases are now in the Prado and the sixth is in the National Museum of Art of Romania in Bucharest.

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History

Composition

Names, dimensions and museums

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  Resurrection
  1597-1600
  275 x 127 cm
  Museo del Prado (Madrid)
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  Crucifixion
  1597-1600
  312 x 169 cm
  Museo del Prado (Madrid)
• 
  Pentecost
  1597-1600
  275 x 127 cm
  Museo del Prado (Madrid)
• 
  Adoration of Shepherds
  1597-1600
  364 x 137 cm
  National Museum of Art of Romania (Bucharest)
• 
  Annunciation
  1597-1600
  315 x 174 cm
  Museo del Prado (Madrid)
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  Baptism of Christ
  1597-1600
  315 x 144 cm
  Museo del Prado (Madrid)

Bibliography (in Spanish)

• Pita Andrade, José Manuel (1985). El Greco. Carrogio SA de Ediciones. ISBN 84-7254-514-8.
• Cossío, Manuel B. (1965). El Greco. Espasa Calpe Argentina, S.A. ISBN 84-7254-514-8.
• Gudiol, José (1982). El Greco. Ediciones Poligrafa S.A. ISBN 84-343-0031-1.
• Tazartes, Mauricia (2004). «Las Obras Maestras». El Greco. 2005 Unidad Editorial S.A. ISBN 84-89780-99-4.
• Buendía, José Rogelio (1988). «El Greco, humanismo y pintura». El Greco. Sarpe. ISBN 84-7700-088-3.
• Ruiz Gómez, Leticia (2007). El Greco. Museo Nacional del Prado. ISBN 978-84-8480-135-1.

External links

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• Entry on the Museo del Prado website