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
Stealing the Mystic Lamb tension, the author adds an easy familiarity with the techniques of oil painting and with the intertwining vines of art and political and religious history. He begins near the end of World War II. As the Reich’s military fortunes crumbled, the Allies scrambled to find where the Nazis concealed their tens of thousands of stolen artworks, many slated for Hitler’s proposed “super museum.” Among them was the Altarpiece. Charney pauses to describe the large work, which comprises 20 individual painted panels, hinged together. Art historians admire it not just for its supreme craftsmanship—described clearly by the author—but also for its