Santo Domingo el Antiguo Altarpiece the Evangelist", "St John the Baptist", "St Bernard" and "St Benedict") and a small painting on the tympanum between the two main paintings ("Sudarium"). Of these, only the original panels of "St John the Baptist" and "St John the Evangelist" remain in situ, along with the painting for the right-hand side altarpiece, "Resurrection". "Assumption" is now in the Art Institute of Chicago and "Holy Trinity" in the Prado Museum. The rest are replaced in the church by copies. Santo Domingo el Antiguo Altarpiece The Santo Domingo el Antiguo Altarpiece is a 1577-1579 altarpiece by El Greco, painted for the Monastery
Maestà The most famous example of the "Maestà" is the "Maestà with Twenty Angels and Nineteen Saints", an altarpiece comprising many individual paintings commissioned by the city of Siena in 1308 from the artist Duccio di Buoninsegna. The painting was installed in the city's cathedral on June 9, 1311. Although it took a generation for its effect truly to be felt, Duccio's "Maestà" set Italian painting on a course leading away from the hieratic representations of Byzantine art towards more direct presentations of reality. Creating this altarpiece assembled from many wood panels bonded together before painting was an arduous undertaking. The