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El Greco: The Adoration of the Name of Jesus  wikidata:Q26705706 reasonator:Q26705706
Artist
El Greco  (1541–1614)  wikidata:Q301 q:en:El Greco
 
El Greco
Alternative names
Birth name: Domenikos Theotokópoulos
Ελληνικά: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος
Description Italian- painter, sculptor, architect and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 1 October 1541 Edit this at Wikidata 7 April 1614 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Heraklion Edit this at Wikidata Toledo Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Toledo, Crete, Venice, Rome
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artist QS:P170,Q301
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Title
The Adoration of the Name of Jesus Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Len,"The Adoration of the Name of Jesus"
label QS:Lde,"Der Traum Philipps II.: Anbetung des Namen Jesu (Allegorie auf den Sieg bei Lepanto)"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: El Greco may have painted the work to win favour with King Philip II of Spain, but he never seems to have achieved that aim. The subject is based on a text in the gospel of St Paul, but it can also be read as an allegory of the victory of the Holy League over the Ottoman fleet at Lepanto in 1571. The figure dressed in black in the foreground is identifiable as King Philip; the man in the yellow robe as a doge of Venice; the old man opposite him as the pope; and the figure on the left as Don John of Austria, the commander of the Christian fleet at the battle. In the heavens is a monogram formed from IHS–the first three letters of the name Jesus in Greek, also In Hoc Signo and Jesus Hominum Salvator. A larger version of the painting, a votive altarpiece called The Dream of Philip II, is in the Escorial, Spain (see thumbnail below}. (References: Michael Scholz-Hansel, El Greco: Domenikos Theotokopoulos, 1541-1614, Cologne: Taschen, 2004, ISBN 3822831719, p. 25; Donald Bruce, "Illuminated Gospels 'Seeing Salvation' At The National Gallery", Contemporary Review, April 2000.)
Date between 1577 and 1580
date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1577-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1580-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil and tempera on pine wood
Dimensions height: 55.1 cm (21.6 in); width: 33.8 cm (13.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,55.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,33.8U174728
institution QS:P195,Q180788
Current location
2nd floor room 30
English: Paintings 1600 to 1700
Accession number
NG6260
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