''Annunciation'' is a 1609 work by
El Greco
Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos ( el, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος ; 1 October 1541 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El G ...
, now in a private collection in
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...
. It is a variant on his work on the same theme as part of the
Doña María de Aragón Altarpiece
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 dur ...
. The painter died in April 1614 and the work may have been completed by his son
Jorge Manuel after that date. It is not an independent composition but a cut-down fragment of the whole, designed for and installed in the chapel of the
Hospital de Tavera
The Hospital de Tavera, also known as the Hospital de San Juan Bautista, Hospital de afuera, or simply as Hospital Tavera, is an important building of Renaissance architecture located is in the Spanish city of Toledo. It was built between 1541 an ...
.
[Catalog nr. 173, in Tiziana Feti's catalog of El Greco paintings, 1969]
File:Los tres Retablos del Hospital Tavera, en Toledo.jpg, Old photo of chapel interior
File:El Greco - Annunciation reconstruction, Hospital de Tavera.jpg, Annunciation reconstruction with Concert of Angels
''Concert of Angels'' is a work of El Greco in oil on canvas from 1608, during his last period in Toledo, Spain. It is exhibited at the National Gallery in Athens.
Created at the end of his life, art historians have disputed whether this paint ...
File:Anunciacion Prado(2).jpg, Prado version of the Annunciation
File:El Greco, The Vision of Saint John (1608-1614).jpg, Vision of St John (also cut down, upper portion unknown)
File:Image-El Bautismo de Cristo El Greco version1609.jpg, Baptism of Christ (still in Toledo)
References
Bibliography (in Spanish)
* ÁLVAREZ LOPERA, José, ''El Greco'', Madrid, Arlanza, 2005, Biblioteca «Descubrir el Arte», (colección «Grandes maestros»). .
* SCHOLZ-HÄNSEL, Michael, ''El Greco'', Colonia, Taschen, 2003. {{ISBN, 978-3-8228-3173-1.
*ArteHistoria.com
«Anunciación» onsulta: 09.01.2011
El Greco
Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos ( el, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος ; 1 October 1541 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El G ...
1609 paintings
Paintings by El Greco