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Saint Lawrence's Vision of the Virgin Mary is a 1577 oil on canvas painting by 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.

Saint Lawrence's Vision of the Madonna and Child
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

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.

Bibliography

• (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.

External links

• ArteHistoria.com. «Aparición de la Virgen a San Lorenzo» [Consulta: 22.12.2010].

На других языках

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- [en] Saint Lawrence's Vision of the Madonna and Child

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[fr] Apparition de la Vierge à Saint Laurent

L’Apparition de la Vierge à saint Laurent (Aparición de la Virgen a San Lorenzo) est un tableau peint par Le Greco en 1577. Il mesure 119 cm de haut sur 102 cm de large. Il est conservé au collège Notre-Dame-de-la-Antigua (es) à Monforte de Lemos, dans la province de Lugo en Espagne.

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[it] Apparizione della Vergine a san Lorenzo

L'Apparizione della Vergine a San Lorenzo è un'opera di El Greco, realizzata nel 1577 durante il suo primo periodo a Toledo. È una delle più grandi opere dell'intera carriera di El Greco. La sua struttura e lo stile rendono inevitabile l'evocazione di Tiziano e persino di Michelangelo. Si potrebbe anche dire che anticipa il tenebrismo.

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