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The Concert of the Angels 1614

This strange yet "modern" painting is the heavenly section of an "Annunciation", today in the collections of a Madrid bank. It is one of the very last works painted by Greco shortly before he died in Toledo in 1614. Left unfinished, the painting teaches us a lot about the artist's technique. One notices that these angels have no wings. They are the members of a heavenly or...

Size:: 115 x 217 cm
Medium:: Oil on Canvas
Credit:: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
More:: http://www.nationalgallery.gr/site/content.php?artwork_id=61194&set_locale=2

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