FILE: 02_Assumption of the Virgin_El Greco.jpg

TITLE: PAINTING - Assumption of the Virgin - BAROQUE PERIOD IN SPAIN

DESCRIPTION: EL GRECO. This typifies the definition of Baroque Period in Spain: extremely realistic and devotional. This is what the nuns wanted from Caravaggio and didn't get (see Baroque Per. in iTALY #26). El Greco liked creating 2 realities in the same painting: heaven and earth. This painting is like Titian with his use of oils, highlites, shadows and long strokes.