{"data":{"id":87479,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/87479","is_boosted":true,"title":"The Assumption of the Virgin","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAgAFAPMAAEQ8Mk5DOGBLRmRQR2FYT29jUGxpX3dqWGReZmBmZwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAACAAUAAAQIsJyEDBlAhAgAOw==","width":3990,"height":7631,"alt_text":"Painting of the Virgin Mary ascending to heaven amongst multitude of angels."},"main_reference_number":"1906.99","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":100,"date_start":1577,"date_end":1579,"date_display":"1577\u201379","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"El Greco (Dom\u00e9nikos Theotok\u00f3poulos; Greek, active in Spain, 1541\u20131614)","place_of_origin":"Greece","description":"<p><em>The Assumption of the Virgin<\/em> was the central image of El Greco\u2019s first major commission, an altarpiece for the Church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo, a convent in Toledo, Spain. The painting\u2019s subject, the raising of the Virgin Mary\u2019s body into heaven, relates to the function of the church as the funerary monument of a wealthy noblewoman, Do\u00f1a Maria de Silva; the iconography of the entire commission focuses on death and salvation.<\/p>\n<p>El Greco used broad, free brushwork, flickering hues, rich color harmonies, and bold figural arrangements to arouse devotional fervor in the viewer and impart a deep sense of faith. The composition is divided into two zones: the earthly sphere of the apostles and the celestial realm of the angels. El Greco masterfully compressed many figures into a tall and narrow format: In the earthly zone, the apostles\u2019 faces and gestures express a range of emotions through their dynamic, agitated gestures and poses. They are so individually considered that it seems El Greco studied actual studio models. In contrast, the angels in the heavenly scene above are calm, graceful, and direct in their focus toward the looming figure of the Virgin Mary as she rises into their realm.<\/p>\n","short_description":"This painting was the central element of an altarpiece that was El Greco\u2019s \ufb01rst major Spanish commission and large public work. The Virgin \ufb02oats upward on the crescent moon, a symbol of her purity, while the apostles express amazement and concern. El Greco\u2019s broad brushstrokes and bold color made this painting a favorite of modern artists such as Pablo Picasso and Mary Cassatt.","dimensions":"403.2 \u00d7 211.8 cm (158 3\/4 \u00d7 83 7\/16 in.); Framed: 461.6 \u00d7 256.5 \u00d7 14 cm (181 3\/4 \u00d7 101 \u00d7 5 9\/16 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":211,"height":403,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":14,"width":256,"height":461,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Inscribed lower right, in Greek: [Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Cretan, displayed this in 1577] (on paper)","credit_line":"Gift of Nancy Atwood Sprague in memory of Albert Arnold Sprague","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco, El museo pict\u00f3rico y escala \u00f3ptica, vol. 3: El Parnaso espa\u00f1ol pintoresco laureado (Madrid: Lucas Antonio Bedmar, 1724), chap. 57; repr., Madrid: M. Aguilar, 1947, 841. \n\nAntonio Ponz, Viage de Espa\u00f1a: Cartas, en que se da noticia de las cosas mas apreciables, y dignas de saberse que hay en ella, vol. 1 (Madrid: Don Joachin Ibarra, 1772), 176; repr., Madrid: M. Aguilar, 1947, 78. \n\nJuan August\u00edn Ce\u00e1n Berm\u00fadez, Diccionario historico de los m\u00e1s ilustres profesores de las bellas artes en Espa\u00f1a, vol. V (Madrid: Viuda de Ibarra, Hijoys, y Compa\u00f1ia, 1800), 10.\n\nS.S. Cook, Sketches in Spain during the years 1829, 30, 31, & 32; Containing notices of some districts very little known; of the manners of the people, government, recent changes, commerce, fine arts, and natural history, vol. 2 (London: T. and W. Boone, 1834), 158. \n\nNicol\u00e1s Magan, \u201cBiograf\u00eda espa\u00f1ola: El Greco,\u201d Seminario pintoresco espa\u00f1ol 2 (September 8, 1844): 285\u201386.\n\nJos\u00e9 Amador de los Rios, Toledo Pintoresca o Descripci\u00f3n de sus m\u00e1s c\u00e9lebres monumentos (Madrid: D. Ignacio Boix, 1845), 182; repr, Barcelona: El Albir, 1976. \n\nSisto Ram\u00f3n Parro, Toledo en la mano, o descripci\u00f3n hist\u00f3rico-art\u00edstica de la magn\u00edfica cathedral y de los dem\u00e1s c\u00e9lebres monumentos y cosas notables que encierra esta magn\u00edfica ciudad, Antigua Corte de Espa\u00f1a, vol. 2 (Toledo: Severiano L\u00f3pez Fando, 1857), 114\u201316. \n\nLouis Viardot, Les mus\u00e9es d'Espagne; guide et memento de l'artiste et du voyageur, suivis de notices biographiques sur les principaux peintres de l'Espagne, 3rd ed.  (Paris: Hachette, 1860), 159.\n\nSebast\u00edan de Bourbon, Les huiles et des vernis employ\u00e9s pour la peinture Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1st ser., 15 (1863): 176.\n\nA[ndr\u00e9-Absinthe] Lavice, Revue des Mus\u00e9es d\u2019Espagne. Catalogue reisonn\u00e9 des peintures et sculptures espos\u00e9es dans les Galeries publiques et particuli\u00e8res et dans les \u00e9glises (Paris: Vve. Jules Renouard, Libraire-Editeur, 1864), 225.\n\nCatalogue abr\u00e9g\u00e9 des tableaux expos\u00e9s dans les salons de l'ancien asile de Pau appartenant aux h\u00e9ritiers de feu Mgr l'Infant don S\u00e9bastien de Bourbon et Bragance (Paris: Veronese, 1876), 73 cat. 668.\n\nHenry O'Shea, Guide to Spain and Portugal including the Balearic Islands, 3rd ed., (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1868), 288\u201389. \n\nLuis Rodriguez Miguel, Gu\u00eda del viajero en Toledo (Toledo: [s.n.], 1880), 112\u201313. \n\nVizconde de Palazuelos with Charles Docteur, Toledo: Gu\u00eda hist\u00f3rico-pr\u00e1ctica, trans. Charles Docteur (Toledo: Menor Hermanos, 1890), 831\u201332.\n\nFrancisco Navarro Ledesma, \u201cEl Greco en Toledo,\u201d La Ilustraci\u00f3n Nacional 36, a\u00f1o 15 (December 30, 1894): 567.\n\nCarl Justi, \u201cDomenico Theotocopuli von Kreta,\u201d Zeitschrift f\u00fcr bildende Kunst 8 (1897): 261; repr. in Miscellaneen aus dre Jahrhungerten Spanischen Kunstlebens (Berlin: G. Grotesche, 1908), 228, 229 (ill.), 230.\n\nAureliano de Beruete y Moret, Vel\u00e1zquez (Paris: Henri Laurens, 1898), 67\u201368.\n\nHannah Lynch, Toledo. The Story of an Old Spanish Capital (London: J. M. Dent & co., 1898), 197, 207. \n\nGuillermo J. de Guill\u00e9n Garc\u00eda, \u201cDomenico Theotoc\u00f3puli (El Greco): Sus cuadros,\u201d Revista de la Asociaci\u00f3n art\u00edstico arqueol\u00f3gica barcelonesa 2, a\u00f1o 3, no. 14 (July\u2013August 1899): 243. \n\nArthur Symons, \u201cA Study at Toledo,\u201d Monthly Review 2, no. 6 (March 1901): 149\u201350. \n\nCatalogue de la Collection de Tableaux de feu son Altesse Royale l'Infante Marie Christine de Bourbon (Madrid: Asil\u00f3 de Hu\u00e9rfanos del S. C. de Jes\u00fas, 1902), cat. 2.\n\nFrancisco de Alc\u00e1ntara, \u201cEl Greco, pintor cristiano,\u201d El Imparcial, June 5, 1902): 3\u20134. \n\nSalvador Viniegra, Exposici\u00f3n de las obras de Domenico Theotoc\u00f3pouli, llamado El Greco, exh. cat. (Santa Catalina: J. Sastre et cetera., 1902), 20 cat. 6.\n\nSalvador Sanpere y Miquel, \"Exposiciones Rosales y Greco,\"Album Sal\u00f3n, (1902): 133.\n\nM[anuel] B. Coss\u00edo, \u201cM\u00e1s documentos in\u00e9ditos para la histora del arte espa\u00f1ol,\u201d La lectura: Revista de ciencias y de artes 5, no. 53 (1905): 2. \n\nPaul Lafond, \u201cDomenikos Theotokopuli, dit Le Greco,\u201d Les Arts 58 (October 1906): 4 (ill.), 5 (detail ill.), 18 (ill.).\n\nLudwig Zottmann, \u201cZur Kunst von \u2018El Greco,\u2019\u201d Die christliche Kunst 3 (1906\/7): 67, 104\u201305. \n\n\u201cLa exportaci\u00f3n de objectes d\u2019art,\u201d Forma 2 (1907): 451.\n\nMiguel Utrillo, Domenikos Theotokopulos: \u201cEl Greco\u201d (Barcelona: Thomas, n.d. [1907?]), 5 (ill.).\n\nManuel B. Coss\u00edo, El Greco, 2 vol. (Madrid: V. Su\u00e1rez, 1908), 125\u201337, 143\u201344, 594, no. 279, pl. 16; rev. ed. by Natalia Coss\u00edo de Jim\u00e9nez, Barcelona: Editorial R.M., 1972, 67, 79, 86\u201391, 94, 100\u201301, 104\u201305, 120, 128, 130, 236, 309, 370, fig. 24, no. 138.\n\nEl Greco: Spanish School, Masters in Art ser., vol. 9, no. 103 (Boston: Bates and Guild, 1908), plate 3, 39, 42; Reprinted, Philip L[eslie] Hale, Great Masters in Art (New York: Crown Publishers, 1935).\n\n\"The New El Greco Frame,\" Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1 (1908): 20\u201321 (ill.).\n\nCarl Justi, Miscellaneen aus drei Jahrhunderten spanischen Kunstlebens, 2 (Berlin: G. Grotesche, 1908), 228-29 (ill.), 230.\n\nMorton H. Bernath, \"Drei Hauptwerke des Greco in Amerika,\" Zeitschrift f\u00fcr bildende Kunst, 45 (1910): 20\u201321 (ill.), 22. \n\nAlbert F[rederick] Calvert and C[atherine] Gasquoine Hartley, El Greco. An account of his life and works (London and New York: John Lane, 1909), viii no. 29, 60, 79\u201382, 87, 89-91, pl. 29.\n\nFrancisco de Borja de San Rom\u00e1n y Fern\u00e1ndez, El Greco en Toledo, \u00f3 Nuevas investigaciones acerca de la vida y obras de Dominico Theotoc\u00f3puli (Madrid: Liber\u00eda General de Victoriano Su\u00e1rez, 1910), 31.; reprinted, Toledo, 1982, 45. \n\nAugust L. Mayer, El Greco: Eine Einf\u00fchrung in das Leben und Wirken des Domenico Theotocopuli (Munich: Delphin, 1911), 11 (ill.), 24\u201325; rev. ed., Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1916, 17, 55 pl. 8.\n\nHugo Kehrer, Die Kunst des Greco: mit funfundfunfzig tafeln (Munich: Hugo Schmidt Verlag, 1914), 21, pl. 8; rev. ed., Munich: Hugo Schmidt Verlag, 1920, 21, pl. 8. \n\n\u201cPainting Given to Art Institute,\u201d Chicago Daily Tribune, February 14, 1915.\n\nWilliam N. Bates, \u201cArchaeological News,\u201d American Journal of Archaeology 19, 3 (1915): 365\u201366.\n\nLorinda Munson Bryant, What Pictures to See in America (New York: John Lane, 1915), 257\u201358, fig. 167. \n\n\u201cGift of Mr. and Mrs. Sprague,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 9, no. 3  (1915): title ill.,  34. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings, Part II (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 20, no. 50. \n\nA[ureliano] de Beruete y Moret, Conferencias de arte (Madrid, 1924), ill. opp. 110, 111\u201312.\n\nM[arian] C[omings], \u201cEl Grecos in the Art Institute,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 18, no. 3 (1924): 30\u201331 (ill.). \n\n\u00c9lie Lambert, \u201cLes Proc\u00e9d\u00e9s du Greco,\u201d Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 5th ser., 10 (1924): 154. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), 76, 154, no. 507 (ill.). \n\nAugust L. Mayer, Dominico Theotocopuli, El Greco: kritisches und illustriertes Verzeichnis des Gesamtwerkes (Munich: F. Hanfstaengl, 1926), 19, no. 114, pl. 7.\n\nVerardo Garc\u00eda Rey, El D\u00e9an de la Santa Iglesia de Toledo, don Diego de Castilla (Toledo: A. Medina, 1927), 79\u201380, 87\u201389. \n\nJ[ens] F[erdinand] Willumsen, La Jeunesse du peintre El Greco, vol. 1 (Paris: Les Editions G. Cr\u00e8s et. Cie., 1927), 566\u201372, pl. 25. \n\nEmilio Huguet del Villar, El Greco en Espa\u00f1a (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1928), 10, 51\u201352, 70, 84\u201385, 171, pl. 3. \n\nAntonio Weyler, \u201cReflexiones sobre El Greco,\u201d Arte espa\u00f1ol 10 (1929): 438\u201339. \n\nFrank Rutter, El Greco (New York: E. Weyhe, 1930), 28. \n\nEllis K. Waterhouse, \u201cEl Greco\u2019s Italian Period,\u201d Art Studies 8 (1930): 81, 83, pls. 30\u201333. \n\nCamille Mauclair, Les Grands Artistes, Leur Vie \u2013 Leur \u0152uvre: El Greco, Hanri Laurens, ed. (Paris: Librairie Renouard, 1931), 27, 75.\n\nAugust L. Mayer, El Greco (Berlin: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1931), 2, 13, 41\u201344, 163, fig. 32. \n\nElla S. Siple, \u201cMuseums in Chicago,\u201d Burlington Magazine 58, no. 335 (1931): 108. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1932), 95\u201396 (ill.), 173.\n\nC[harles] J[oseph] Bulliet, \u201cA Century of Progress in Collecting,\u201d Parnassus 5, no. 4 (1933): 7. \n\nDaniel Catton Rich, \"Die Ausstellung \u2018F\u00fcnf Jahrhunderte der Fr\u00fchmalerei\u2019 in Chicago,\" Pantheon, 12 (December 1933): 381.\n\nCatalogue of a Century of Progress Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture Lent from American Collections, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), 26 cat. 169.\n\nCatalogue of a Century of Progress Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1934), 13 cat. 70.\n\nF[rederick] A[lbert] Gutheim, \"El Greco and Chicago,\" Survey Graphic, 23, no. 10 (October 1934): 490\u201391 (ill.), 492.\n\nFrancisco de Borja de San Rom\u00e1n y Fern\u00e1ndez, \"Documentos de El Greco referentes a los cuadros de Santo Domingo el Antiguo,\" Archivo espa\u00f1ol de arte y arqueologia, 10 (1934): 8; reprinted in El Greco: Documents on his Life and Work, Nicos Hadjinicolaou, ed., (Crete University Press, 1990), 106.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections, Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1935), 2 (ill.). \n\nFrederick A. Sweet, Exhibition of Spanish Painting, exh. cat. (Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum Pree, 1935), n.p., under no. 27. \n\nOskar Frank Leonard Hagen, Patterns and Principles of Spanish Art (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1936), 117; rev. ed., Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1943, 142. \n\nRaymond Escholier, Greco (Paris: Librairie Floury, 1937), 31 (ill.). \n\nM[aurice] Legendre and A[lbert] Hartmann, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Called El Greco (Paris: Hyp\u00e9rion, 1937), 236 (ill.).\n\nLudwig Goldscheider, El Greco (New York: Oxford University Press, 1938), 9, 24, pl. 226; \n2nd ed., London: Oxford University Press, 1949, 9, 18, pl. 12; 3rd ed., New York: Phaidon, 1954, 8\u20139, 17, pl. 13. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1941), 2 (ill.). \n\nJos\u00e9 Gudiol, Spanish Painting, exh. cat. (Toledo, OH: Toledo Museum of Art, 1941), 39 fig. 39, 40 (detail ill.).\n\nIgnacio de Beryes, Domenicos Theotocopoulos, El Greco (Barcelona: Iberia, 1944), 17. \n\nJuan de la Encina, Domenico Greco (Mexico City: Leyenda, 1944), 105\u201311. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1945), 2 (ill.). \n\nWalter Heil, Loan Exhibition of Masterworks by El Greco, exh. cat. (San Francisco: M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, 1947), n.p.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1948), 2 (ill.).\n\nFiske Kimball and Lionello Venturi, Great Paintings in America: One Hundred and One Masterpieces in Color (New York: Coward-McCann, 1948), 94, no. 40 (ill.).\n\n\"Recent Acquisitions,\" Pictures on Exhibit, 12, no. 4 (January 1950): 44.\n\nLeo Bronstein, El Greco. (Domenico Theotocopoulos) (New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1950): 48, 50, pls. 1\u20132; repr., New York: N.H. Abrams, n.d. [1970?]), 48, 50, pls. 1\u20132; repr., New York: H.N. Abrams, 1990. \n\nJos\u00e9 Cam\u00f3n Aznar, Domenico Greco, 2 vols. (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1950), vol. 1, 249\u201353, figs. 142, 144; vol. 2, 1356, no. 3;  rev. ed., Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1970, vol. 1, 270\u201379, figs. 161, 163\u201366, vol. 2, 1356, no. 3. \n\nFrederick A. Sweet, \u201cTintoretto and El Greco,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 44, no. 2 (1950): 23. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art institute of Chicago, 1952), n.p. (ill.). \n\nCharles Fabens Kelley, \"Chicago: Record Years,\" Art News, 51, no. 4 (June \u2013August 1952): 52 (color ill.), 107.\n\nBernardino de Pantorba, 70 Obras maestras del Greco (Madrid: Plus Ultra, 1953), 50, pl. 1. \n\nDiego Angulo I\u00f1\u00edguez, \u201cPintura del Renacimiento,\u201d Ars Hispaniae 12 (1954): 277, fig. 283. \n\nXavier de Salas, \u201cM\u00e1s valoraciones rom\u00e1nticas del Greco y nota al pintor Aparicio y sus plagios,\u201d Clavile\u00f1o, revista de la Asociaci\u00f3n internacional de hispanismo 5, no. 27 (1954): 29. \n\nAntonia Vallentin, El Greco (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955), pl. 24, 95\u201396, 286\u201388. \n\nManuel B. Coss\u00edo, Dominico Theotocopuli. El Greco (The Dolphin Book Co. Ltd., 1955), n.p. (ill.)\n\nLionello Venturi, The Sixteenth Century: From Leonardo to El Greco (New York: Skira, 1956), 257 (ill.), 262. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1956), 2 (ill.). \n\nPaul Guinard, El Greco: Biographical and Critical Study (New York: Skira, 1956), 18. \n\nMichel Florisoone, \u201cLa mystique plastique du Greco et les ant\u00e9c\u00e9dents de son style,\u201d Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 6th year, 50 (1957): 36, fig. 22. \n\nHalldor Soehner, \u201cGreco in Spainien. Teil I. Grecos Stilentwicklung in Spanien,\u201d M\u00fcnchner jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst, 8 (1957): 124, 126, 128, 132.\n\nJuan Antonio Gaya Nu\u00f1o, La pintura espa\u00f1ola fuera de Espa\u00f1a: Historia y Cat\u00e1logo (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1958), 53, 188\u201389, no. 1214, pl. 105. \n\nAline B. Saarinen, The Proud Possessors (New York: Random House, 1958), 164\u201365. \n\nElizabeth Du Gu\u00e9 Trapier, El Greco: Early Years at Toledo 1576-1586 (New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1958), 6\u201312, 17, 24, fig. 6.\n\nHalldor Soehner, \u201cGreco in Spainien. Teil II. Atelier und Nachfolge Greco's,\" M\u00fcnchner Jahrbuch der bildende Kunst, 9-10 (1958-1959): 152, pl. 11c.\n\nGaston Diehl, El Greco (New York, 1959), 32.\n\nHugo Kehrer, Greco in Toledo: H\u00f6he und Vollendung (Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1960), 18.\n\nHalldor Soehner, \u201cARTICLE NAME\u201d M\u00fcnchner Jahrbuch der bildende Kunst 11 (1960): 176. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1961), 89\u201391 (ill.), 203\u201304. \n\nLouisine W. Havemeyer, Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1961), 154\u201356.\n\nP\u00e1l Kelemen, El Greco Revisited: Candia, Venice, Toledo (New York: MacMillan Company, 1961), 147, 154\u201355, pl. 110B.\n\nF[rancisco] J[avier] S\u00e1nchez Canton, El Greco (Milan: Silvanna Editoriale d'Arte, 1961), 3. \n\nHarold E. Wethey, El Greco and His School, 2 vol. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1962), 34, 112, figs. 46\u201348, 391, vol. 2, 4\u20135, no. 1; rev. Spanish ed., trans. Carlos Cid, Madrid: Guardarrama, 1967, vol. 1, p. 51, pls. 39\u201341, 391, vol. 2, p. 20, no. 1. \n\nPhilip Troutman, El Greco (London: Spring Books, 1963), 13, 30, pl. 7. \n\nAllan Braham, \u201cTwo Notes on El Greco and Michelangelo,\u201d Burlington Magazine 108 (1966): 307\u201308, fig. 39. \n\nRodolfo Pallucchini, \u201cL\u2019Art Institute di Chicago,\u201d L\u2019illustrazione del medico 33 (Feb. 1966): 11 (ill.).\n\nDenys Sutton, \u201cThe Great Grey City,\u201d Apollo 84 (1966): 177. \n\nFrederick A. Sweet, \u201cGreat Chicago Collectors,\u201d Apollo 84 (1966): 190\u201391, fig. 1. \n\nAndrea E. Emiliani, El Greco (Munich: Instituto Geografico de Agostini, 1966), 8. \n\nTiziana Frati, L\u2019opera completa del Greco (Milan: Rizzoli, 1969), 95\u201396, no. 23f (ill.). \n\nJohn Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London: Thames and Hudson, 1970), 40\u201342 (ill.), 281; \nrev. ed., London: Thames and London, 1977, 40\u201342 (ill.), 282.\n\nDami\u00e1n Bay\u00f3n, \u201cEl Greco: Creador de conjuntos pl\u00e1sticos,\u201d Col\u00f3quio 5 (1971): 17\u201319. \n\nJos\u00e9 Gudiol, Dom\u00e9nikos Theotokopoulos: El Greco, 1541-1614 (Secker & Warburg, 1971), 67\u201368, 77, 342, no. 41, figs. 54\u201356; rev. ed., trans. Kenneth Lyons, London: Secker & Warburg, 1973, 67\u201368, 77, 342, no. 41, figs. 54\u201356. \n\nEverett Fahy and Sir Francis Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, vol. 5 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1973), 102\u201303.\n\nJacques Lassaigne, El Greco, trans. Jane Brenton (London: Thames and Hudson, 1973), 171\u201372 (ill.).\n\nDavid Davies, El Greco (Oxford: Phaidon, 1976), 6\u20137, 12, pl. 1.\n\nLuciano Di Pietro and Edi Baccheschi, El Greco (Milan: Mondadori, 1976), 42 (ill.), 43 (detail ill.)\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, 100 Masterpieces (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), 18, 20, pl. 13; repr. Crawfordsville, IN: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1983, 18, 20 pl. 13.\n\nJohn D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists (New York: Abbeville Press, 1979), 152 (ill.), 153\u201354. \n\nFernando Mar\u00edas and August\u00edn Bustamonte, \"Le Greco et se th\u00e9orie de l'architecture,\" Revue de l\u2019Art, no. 46 (1979): 39 (replica ill.).\n\n\u201c\u2018The Assumption of the Virgin,\u2019 by El Greco, 1577,\u201d Chicago Tribune, April 4, 1979, p. 110.\n\nEdi Baccheschi, Il Greco: Tutti i dipinti (Milan: Rizzoli, 1980), 24, no. 21f (ill.). \n\nKatharine Baetjer, \u201cEl Greco,\u201d Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 39, no. 1 (1981): 26, 28\u201329 (ill.). \n\nManuel B. Coss\u00edo, El Greco (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1981), 67, 70, 71 (ill.), 72\u201374.\n\nRodolfo Pallucchini, La Pittura Veneziana del Seicento, vol. 1 (Venice: Alfieri, 1981), 57.\n\nMercedes Agueda, \"La colecci\u00f3n de pinturas del infante Don Sebasti\u00e1n Gabriel,\" Bolet\u00edn del Museo del Prado, 3, no. 7 (January\u2013April 1982): 106 no. 26.\n\nJonathan Brown, \"El Greco and Toledo,\" in El Greco of Toledo, exh. cat., Jonathan Brown, ed., (Boston: Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1982), 116\u201318, 122, 135, figs. 66\u201367, pl. 22. \n\nDavid Davies, \"Washington, National Gallery. El Greco of Toledo,\" Burlington Magazine 124, no. 953 (August 1982): 531\u201332.\n\nAlfonso E. P\u00e9rez S\u00e1nchez, \"On the Reconstruction of El Greco's Dispersed Altarpieces,\" in El Greco of Toledo, exh. cat., Jonathan Brown, ed., (Boston: Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1982), 151\u201352, 156, figs. 75\u201380. \n\nKokuritsu Seiy\u014d Bijutsukan, ed., El Greco Exhibition, exh. cat. (Tokyo: The National Museum of Western Art \/ The Tokyo Shimbun, 1986), 78, 91\u201392, fig. 16. \n\nGilbert Jimenez, \u201cEl Greco\u2019s \u2018The Assumption\u2019 Has More than Meets the Eye,\u201d Chicago Sun-Times, August 15, 1986, p. 35.\n\nYasunari Kitaura, \u201cEl procedor art\u00edstico de El Greco,\u201d Bolet\u00edn del Museo del Prado 7 (1986): 87. \n\nRichard G. Mann, El Greco and His Patrons: Three Major Projects (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 36\u201341, fig. 9. \n\nFrances Weitzenhoffer, The Havemeyers: Impressionism Comes to America (New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1986), 156\u201357, pl. 125.\n\nMyrtali Acheimastou-Potamianou, ed., From Byzantium to El Greco. Greek Frescos and Icons, exh. cat., trans. David A. Hardy (Athens: Royal Academy of the Arts, 1987), 191 under cat. 63. \n\nJos\u00e9 \u00c1lvarez Lopera, De Ce\u00e1n a Coss\u00edo: la fortuna cr\u00edtica del Greco en el siglo XIX (Madrid: Fundacion Universitaria Espa\u00f1ola, 1987), 15, 46n90, 122, 124, 152n52, 162n111.\n\nKenneth S. Lynn, Hemingway (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1987), 16, 402\u201303.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), 8, 23 (ill.). \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Annual Report, 1988\u201389 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1989), 22\u201323.\n\nDavid McCracken, \"Picking Chicago's Top Art Hits: An Opinionated Selection of 40 'Pop' Favorites,\"Chicago Tribune Weekly Guide, August 18\u201324, 1989, section 7K (ill.)\n\nDavid Davies, El Greco: Mystery and Illumination, exh. cat. (Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland \/ Edinburgh International Festival, 1989), 24\u201325 fig. 9.\n\nSuzanne L. Stratton, La Inmaculada Concepci\u00f3n en el arte espa\u00f1ol (Madrid: Fundacion Universitaria Espa\u00f1ola, 1989), 43\u201333 fig. 37; English ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 54-56, fig. 35.\n\nJonathan Brown and Richard G. Mann, Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 42.\n\nDavid Davies, \"The relationship of El Greco's altarpieces to the mass of the Roman rite\" in The Altarpiece in the Renaissance Peter Humfrey and Martin Kemp, eds., (Cambridge University Press, 1990), 215, 222, 226, 231, pl. 131.\n\nMercedes Orihuela, ed., Museo del Prado: Inventario general de pinturas, vol. 2: El museo de la Trinidad (bienes desamortizados) (Madrid: Museo del Prado: Espasa Calpe, 1991), 108 no. 299 (ill.).\n\n\u00c9va Nyerges, \u201cLa Madeleine p\u00e9nitente du Greco \u00e0 Budapest,\u201d Bulletin du Mus\u00e9e Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 76 (1992): 51 fig. 33. \n\nAnne Cloulas, Greco (Paris: Fayard, 1993), 44, ill.\n\nJos\u00e9 \u00c1lvarez Lopera, El Greco. La obra esencial (Madrid: S\u00edlex, 1993), 92\u201396, 243 (ill.), 279, no. 34. \n\nAlice Cooney Frelinghuysen et. al., Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993), 17\u201318, 229, 233, 238, 243, fig. 66. \n\nNeil Harris, Chicago's Dream, a World's Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1893\u20131993, Teri J. Edelstein, ed. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), 24 (ill.).\n\nDario Gamboni, \"Arts visuels, espace et territoire,\" in Le Grand Atlas de I'art vol. 1 (Paris: Encyclopaedia Universalis, 1993), 15-16 fig. 6. \n\nAlbert Boime, \"The Americanization of El Greco,\" in El Greco of Crete: Proceedings of the International Symposium \u2013 Iraklion, Crete, 1-5 September 1990, Nicos Hadjinicolaou, ed., (Iraklion: University of Crete, 1995), 621\u201322.\n\nClare Robertson, \"El Greco and Roman Mannerism,\" in El Greco of Crete: Proceedings of the International Symposium \u2013 Iraklion, Crete, 1-5 September, 1990, Nicos Hadjinicolaou, ed., (Iraklion: University of Crete, 1995), 46, 400.\n\nStella Papadaki-Oekland, \"El Greco's 'Byzantinism': A Re-evaluation,\" in El Greco of Crete: Proceedings of the International Symposium \u2013 Iraklion, Crete, 1-5 September, 1990, Nicos Hadjinicolaou, ed., (Iraklion: University of Crete, 1995), 418\u201320 fig. 11.\n\nNicos Hadjinicolaou, ed., El Greco in Italy and Italian Art, exh. cat. (Athens: National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum\/Foundation for Research and Technology Hella, 1995), 400 [O Gkreko stin Italia kai i italiki techni].\n\nJon Margolis, \u201cOff-the-Wall Lessons in History: One Man\u2019s Unorthodox View of the Art Institute,\u201d Chicago Tribune Magazine, Sept. 17, 1995, p. 16. \n\nPatricia Taylor, \u201cBlasphemous Altar: Picasso\u2019s Les Demoiselles d\u2019Avignon as an Homage to the Virgin-Whore,\u201d Journal for the Association of the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts 1, no. 1 (Autumn 1995): 136\u201337, 151 fig. 3. \n\nJonathan Brown, \"Picasso and the Spanish Tradition of Painting,\" in Picasso and the Spanish Tradition, Jonathan Brown, ed., (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), 6, 8, 10 figs. 1, 5.\n\nRobert Rosenblum, \"The Spanishness of Picasso's Still Lifes in Picasso and the Spanish Tradition, Jonathan Brown, ed., (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), 75\u201376.\n\nJos\u00e9 Milicua, ed., El Greco: La seva revaloraci\u00f3 pel Modernisme catal\u00e0, exh. cat. (Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Cultura: Ajuntament de Barcelona, Institut de Cultura: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, 1996), 106.\n\nFernando Mar\u00edas, El Greco. Biograf\u00eda de un pintor extravagante, 1st ed. (Madrid: Nerea, 1997), 151\u201352, figs. 94, 96; rev. Spanish ed., El Greco. Historia de un pintor extravagante Madrid: Nerea, 2014, PAGES.\n\nJanis Tomlinson, From El Greco to Goya: Painting in Spain, 1561\u20131828 (New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1997), 47\u201349 fig. 23.\n\nErica E. Hirschler, \"Helping \u2018Fine Things across the Atlantic\u2019: Mary Cassatt and Art Collecting in the United States,\u201d in Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, exh. cat., Judith A. Barter, ed., (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New York: H.N. Abrams, 1998), 204\u2013205 fig. 31.\n\nRichard G. Mann, \"El Greco\u2019s Altarpieces for the Chapel of Saint Joseph: Devotion, Politics, and Artistic Innovation in Counter-Reformation Toledo,\u201d in The Word Made Image: Religion, Art, and Architecture in Spain and Spanish America, 1500\u20131600, Anne Hawley, ed., (Boston: Trustees of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Hanover N.H.:  Distributed by University Press of New England, 1998), 48\u201349 fig. 1.\n\nStephan A. Nash, ed., Picasso and the War Years, 1937\u20131945, exh. cat. (New York: Thames and Hudson; San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums, 1998), 44\u201345 fig. 8.\n\nJos\u00e9 Manuel Pita Andrade, \u201cEl Greco in Spagna,\u201d in El Greco: identit\u00e0 e trasformazione: Creta, Italia, Spagna, exh. cat., Jos\u00e9 \u00c1lvarez Lopera, ed., (Milan: Skira, 1999), 134\u2013136 (ill.).\n\nYasunari Kitaura, \"El Greco: La antig\u00fcedad encontrada a trav\u00e9s del Renacimiento italiano,\u201d in El Greco in Italy and Italian Art: proceedings of the international symposium, Rethymno, Crete, 22-24 September 1995, Nicos Hadjinicolaou, ed., (Rethymno: University of Crete, 1999), 258 fig. 2, 260\u201361.\n\nJoanne Snow-Smith, \u201cEl Greco\u2019s Religious Oeuvre in Spain: Reflections of Titian\u2019s Venetian Light and Michelangelo\u2019s Figura Serpentina,\u201d in El Greco in Italy and Italian Art: proceedings of the international symposium, Rethymno, Crete, 22-24 September 1995, Nicos Hadjinicolaou, ed., (Rethymno: University of Crete, 1999), 416-17 fig. 10.\n\nSylvia Ferino-Pagden and Fernando Checa Cremades, eds., El Greco, exh. cat. (Milan; Vienna: Skira, 2001), 28, 30, 36, 105, 142, pl. 9. \n\nSusan Grace Galassi, \"The Frick El Grecos,\" in El Greco: Themes and Variations, exh. cat., Joseph Foscarino, ed., (New York: The Frick Collection, 2001), 36.\n\nMarcia B. Hall, The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco and Caravaggio (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001), 228, 232-33 fig. 184, 240\n\nDavid Davies, ed., El Greco, exh. cat. (London: National Gallery; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), 34, 48, 82, 109, 115, 130, 228, fig. 12.\n\nAlbert Boime, \u201cEl Greco en Nueva York: Su influencia en Jackson Pollock,\u201d in Francisco Calvo Serraller, ed., El Greco, Madrid, 2003, p. X. \n\nAlverez Lopera, et. al., El Greco (Barcelona: Galaxia gutenberg, 2003), XIV (replica ill.), XV (ill.).\n\nFernando Checa, \"El Greco y Tiziano,\" in El Greco (Barcelona: Galaxia gutenberg, 2003), 37. \n\nRichard G. Mann, \u201cLa \u2018Asunci\u00f3n de la Virgen\u2019: Creaci\u00f3n y recepci\u00f3n de una obra maestra,\u201d in El Greco (Barcelona: Galaxia gutenberg, 2003), 139\u201373, pl. 15. \n\nNeil Harris, \"The Park in the Museum: The Making of an Icon,\" in Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; Berkeley: In association with the University of California Press, 2004), 234 fig. 8, 257n8.\n\nMartha Wolff, ed., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 54-61, ill.\n\nJos\u00e9 Redondo Cuesta, \u201cDomenikos Theotokopoulos, Llamado El Greco: Estado de la cuesti\u00f3n,\u201d in Domenikos Theotokopoulos 1900: El Greco, exh. cat. (Mexico D.F.: Socuedad Estatal para Acci\u00f3n Cultural Exterior, 2009), 63.\n\nAl Gury, Color for Painters: A Guide to Traditions and Practice (New York: Watson-Guptill, 2010), 85 (ill.).\n\nFernando Mar\u00edas, El Greco: Life and Work - A New History (New York and London: Thames and Hudson, 2013), 132-142 (ill.), 143-144 (ill.), 145.\n\nLeticia Ruiz G\u00f3mez, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, El Greco: 1541\u20131614 (Madrid: MAPFRE, 2013), 34-36 (ill.)\n\nJoaqu\u00edn Melendo Pomareta, El misterio de El Greco y el franciscano Peretti: Papa Sixto V (1585-90) (Carenas: ASPACAR [Asociaci\u00f3n en Defensa del Patrimonio de Carenas], 2013), 31-34 (illustrated, but miscredited to the Museo del Prado).\n\nFernando Mar\u00edas, \u201cThe Greek, Between Invention and Historyn El Greco of Toledo: Painter of the Visible and the Invisible, exh. cat., Fernando Mar\u00edas, ed., (Madrid: Ediciones El Viso, 2014), 30-31, fig. 13.\n\nJavier Bar\u00f3n, ed. El Greco y la Pintura Moderna, exh. cat. (Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2014), 41, 78, 79 fig. 39, 80-81, 96, 102, 104, 105 (fig. 55) 106, 117, 134, 245, 252.\n\nFernando Mar\u00edas, \u201cConvent of Santo Domingo el Antiguo, Toledo,\u201d in El Greco of Toledo: Painter of the Visible and the Invisible, exh. cat., Fernando Mar\u00edas, ed., (Madrid: Ediciones El Viso, 2014), 249-253.\n\nMiguel Cort\u00e9s Arrese and David Bl\u00e1zquez, El fuego griego: memoria de El Greco en Castilla-La Mancha (Toledo: Editorial Cuarto Centenario, 2014), 64 (replica ill.), 65-66, 71. \n\nPalma Mart\u00ednez-Burgos, Maestros: El Greco (Alcobendas, Madrid: Editorial LIBSA, 2014), 14-15, 60-61 (ill.).\n\nAndrew R. Casper, Art and the Religious Image in El Greco\u2019s Italy (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014), 1-2, 3 fig. 2, 4, 153-60.\n\nSteven F. Ostrow, \"Zurbar\u00e1n's Cartellini:  Presence and the Paragone,\" Art Bulletin 99 (2017): 74, 92 n. 51.\n\nGuillaume Kientz, ed., Greco, exh. cat. (Paris: RMN Editions, 2019), 5 (detail ill.), 7 (detail ill.), 8 (detail ill.), 232.\n\nKeith Christiansen, \u201cGreco en Italia,\u201d in Greco, exh. cat., ed. Guillaume Kientz (Paris: RMN Editions, 2019), 29\u201330, 36.\n\nRichard L. Kagan, \u201cTol\u00e8de, Urbs Sacra: Le painter et ses commanditaires,\u201d in Greco, exh. cat., ed. Guillaume Kientz (Paris: RMN Editions, 2019), 42.\n\nRebecca J. Long, \u201cGreco peinter de retables: Ambitions et frustrations (1577\u20131582),\u201d in Greco, exh. cat., ed. Guillaume Kientz (Paris: RMN Editions, 2019), 143\u201344, 146.\n\nRebecca J. Long, ed., El Greco: Ambition and Defiance, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cover image, 9, 12, 14, 112, 114\u201315 cat. 14, 193.\n\nKeith Christiansen, \u201cEl Greco in Italy,\u201d in El Greco: Ambition and Defiance, exh. cat., ed. Rebecca J. Long (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), 18, 26.\n\nRebecca J. Long, \u201cEl Greco\u2019s Altarpieces: Artistic Ambition and Legal Frustration,\u201d in El Greco: Ambition and Defiance, exh. cat., ed. Rebecca J. Long (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), 42 (replica ill.), 43\u201344.\n\nRichard L. Kagan, \u201cUrbs Sacra: The Demand for Art in El Greco\u2019s Toledo,\u201d in El Greco: Ambition and Defiance, exh. cat., ed. Rebecca J. Long (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), 66.\n\nThomas Connors, \u201cMaster Plans: The Art Institute takes a good hard look at the great El Greco,\u201d Splash Magazine (March 2020): 13 (color ill.)\n\nKyle MacMillan, \u201cEl Greco on A Grand Scale: Art Institute\u2019s extensive exhibition showcases Greek master\u2019s expressive power,\u201d Chicago Sun Times, March 4, 2020, 25 (color ill.)\n\n\u201cEl Greco Moves In,\u201d Art & Antiques (June 2020): 24.\n\nLeticia Ruiz G\u00f3mez, El Greco. Santo Domingo el Antiguo, exh. cat. (Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2025), 6 (detail ill.), 17, 27\u201328, 30 cat. 1, 31 (ill.), 32\u201333, 34 (detail ill.), 35.\n\nA. J. Goldmann, \"Awe-Inspiring Altarpieces,\" The Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2025, A13 (ill.).\n\nJames Rondeau, ed., Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the collection (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2025), 6 (detail ill.), 39 (ill.).\n\nJames Rondeau, ed., Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2026), 65, 258, no. 40 (ill.).","exhibition_history":"Pau, Salons de l'ancien Asile de Pau, Tableaux appartenant aux h\u00e9ritiers de feu Msg. l\u2019Enfant don S\u00e9bastien de Bourbon et Bragance, September 1876, cat. 668.\n\nMadrid, Museo Nacional de Pintura y Escultura, Exposici\u00f3n de las obras de Domenico Theotoc\u00f3pouli, llamado El Greco, April 30 - July 31, 1902, cat. 6. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1\u2013November 1, 1933, cat. 169. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1\u2013November 1, 1934, cat. 70.\n\nParis, Grand Palais, Greco, October 14, 2019\u2013February 10, 2020, cat. 73; Art Institute of Chicago, El Greco: Ambition and Defiance, March 7\u2013June 21, 2020, cat. 14.\n\nMadrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, El Greco. 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