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Virgin Mary (El Greco, Madrid)

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Virgin Mary
ArtistEl Greco
Year1597
Dimensions52 cm × 41 cm (20 in × 16 in)
LocationMuseo del Prado, Madrid

Virgin Mary, or Mater Dolorosa, is a 1597 oil on canvas painting by El Greco, now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.[1] It is considered as a weaker replica of a painting on the same subject now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg.[2]

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Bibliography

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  • Wethey, Harold Edwin; El Greco y su Escuela (Volumen-II) ; Ediciones Guadarrama; Madrid-1967
  • Scholz-Hänsel, Michael; El Greco; Taschen; Köln-2003; ISBN 978-3-8228-3173-1

References

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  1. ^ Wethey, Harold E. El Greco y su Escuela. p. 79.
  2. ^ Kientz, Guillaume (June 2017). De Giotto à Goya. Peintures italiennes et espagnoles du musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Musées de la ville de Strasbourg. pp. 264–265. ISBN 978-2-35125-151-5.