Saint Thomas the Apostle (El Greco) explained

Saint Thomas the Apostle
Artist:El Greco
Year:1608–1614
Medium:oil on canvas
Height Metric:72
Width Metric:55
Museum:Museo del Prado
City:Madrid

Saint Thomas the Apostle is a 1608–1614 painting of Thomas the Apostle by El Greco, now in the Museo del Prado. [1]

It originally formed part of a series of works produced by the artist for the parish church in Almadrones, Spain, a series which represented a set of variants on a set of paintings of the apostles (or Apostolate) for Toledo Cathedral. The painting is key to Gregorio Marañón's theory that the painter used mental patients at the Hospital del Nuncio as models.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Saint Thomas. PradoMuseum. 24 July 2020.