El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos)1600
Pentecost
Gathered with Mary and the apostles, the disciples receive the Holy Spirit as tongues of fire descend and rest upon each of them (Acts 2). An oil painting by El Greco, the Greek-born master who worked in Spain.
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About El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos)
1541-1614 · Greek (worked in Spain)
Greek-born painter of the Spanish Renaissance whose dramatic, expressive style anticipated 20th-century modernism.