The Resurrection

The Resurrection

El Greco
1598. Oil on canvas. 127 x 275 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.

Commissioned for the high altarpiece (retable) of the Colegio de Doña María de Aragón in Madrid. The vertical two-tiered composition features Christ holding a white banner in the upper section, with Roman soldiers arranged in dynamic foreshortenings below. The composition eliminates physical background architecture and spatial depth, relying instead on stark light contrasts and elongated Mannerist figure proportions.

 

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Mannerism

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