Virgin Mary (El Greco, Madrid) Explained

Virgin Mary
Artist:	El Greco
Year:	1597
Height Metric:	52
Width Metric:	41
Museum:	Museo del Prado
City:	Madrid

Virgin Mary, or Mater Dolorosa, is a 1597 oil on canvas painting by El Greco, now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.^[1] It is considered as a weaker replica of a painting on the same subject now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg.^[2]

See also

• List of works by El Greco

Bibliography

• Wethey, Harold Edwin; El Greco y su Escuela (Volumen-II) ; Ediciones Guadarrama; Madrid-1967
• Scholz-Hänsel, Michael; El Greco; Taschen; Köln-2003;

Notes and References

1. Book: Wethey, Harold E.. El Greco y su Escuela. 79.
2. Book: Kientz . Guillaume . De Giotto à Goya. Peintures italiennes et espagnoles du musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg . June 2017 . Musées de la ville de Strasbourg . 978-2-35125-151-5 . 264–265.