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Burial of the Count de Orgaz
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The Assumption of the Virgin Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, oil painting attributed to El Greco; in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg. “Giulio Clovio,” portrait by El Greco, c. 1570; in the Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples El Greco: Pentecost
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Also Known As Doménikos Theotokópoulos
Born 1541 • Heraklion • Greece
Died April 7, 1614 (aged 73) • Toledo • Spain
Movement / Style Renaissance art • Venetian school • Renaissance

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Burial of the Count de Orgaz
The Assumption of the Virgin
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, oil painting attributed to El Greco; in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
“Giulio Clovio,” portrait by El Greco, c. 1570; in the Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples
El Greco: Pentecost
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Venus of Urbino by Titian
Titian
Italian painter
Bellini, Giovanni: Saint Jerome Reading
Giovanni Bellini
Italian painter
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
The Adoration of the Shepherds by Giorgione
Giorgione
Italian painter
Jacopo Bellini: The Nativity
Jacopo Bellini
Italian painter
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, oil on canvas by Jacopo Bassano, probably 1555/1560; in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 106.1 × 82.6 cm.
Jacopo Bassano
Italian painter
Vittore Carpaccio
Italian painter
Baldung, Hans: Three Kings Altarpiece
Hans Baldung
German artist
The Last Supper
Andrea del Castagno
Italian painter
Paris Bordone
Italian painter
Tintoretto: Last Supper
Tintoretto
Italian painter
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
Raphael
Italian painter and architect
Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation of Christ
Piero della Francesca
Italian painter
The Birth of the Virgin, fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1486–90; in the choir of Santa Maria Novella, Florence.
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Italian painter
Hugo van der Goes
Flemish artist
Lorenzo Lotto: Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto
Italian painter
Antonio Vivarini
Italian painter
Miracle of the True Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo
Gentile Bellini
Italian painter
Michael Pacher: The Devil Presenting St. Augustine with the Book of Vices
Michael Pacher
Austrian artist
“The Condemned in Hell,” fresco by Luca Signorelli, 1500–02; in the chapel of S. Brizio, Orvieto, Italy
Luca Signorelli
Italian painter

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