Edited by Leticia Ruiz Gómez, head of the Department of Spanish Renaissance Painting, Museo del Prado.
Spanish. Paperback. 13 x 18 cm. 64 pages.
Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition El Greco. Santo Domingo el Antiguo, held at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, from 18 February to 15 June 2025.
El Greco's nine paintings for the convent of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo, his first commission in Spain, were the painter's calling card in Toledo and are among the most memorable of his entire artistic output. The works executed for the church's three altarpieces were dazzling in their day for their quality and boldness, and were instrumental in forging a close relationship between the convent and the artist, who chose to bury himself there.
The ensemble began to be dispersed in 1830, with the sale of the Assumption, the large central canvas of the main altarpiece. This exhibition brings together, for the first time since then, eight of the nine works that El Greco painted between 1577 and 1579.
This book accompanying the exhibition, edited by Leticia Ruiz, head of the department of Spanish Renaissance Painting at the Museo del Prado, gives a complete overview of the history of these works, from their commission by Diego de Castilla (ca. 1507-1584), dean of Toledo Cathedral, to their dispersal from the 19th century onwards. The book also includes a part of the catalogue with comments and the reproduction of the nine works (eight of them present in the exhibition) that made up the three altarpieces.
ISBN: 978-84-8480-630-1
