Horst Janson commented on this work's "violent foreshortening" by noting that its setting in the Santo Tomé enhances its effect by making the viewer look sharply upward to view the large canvas, hung in a room of low depth.
Horst Janson commented on this work's "violent foreshortening" by noting that its setting in the Santo Tomé enhances its effect by making the viewer look sharply upward to view the large canvas, hung in a room of low depth. The artist's son bears a torch as well as a handkerchief with the artist's signature, and St. Stephen assists St. Augustine with the titular (*) action of this painting. It is sharply divided into an earthly section and a heavenly section, wherein the titular figure's Guardian Angel directs him to Mary. Located in the artist's place of death, Toledo, this is, for 10 points, which work by El Greco depicting the internment of a Spanish nobleman?
Horst Janson commented on this work's "violent foreshortening" by noting that its setting in the Santo Tomé enhances its effect by making the viewer look sharply upward to view the large canvas, hung in a room of low depth.
The {Burial of Count Orgaz} [or The {Burial of the Count of Orgaz}; or El {Entierro del Conde de Orgaz}]