Painting ID help

[Quigley Brown]

Anyone know anything about this painting? I found this very high quality professionally framed 20x24 print at the Goodwill today for $7. I've actually never seen a print of such subject matter at any thrift store before. It was to good to pass up even though I have no wall space to hang it (I guess I'll have to start a rotation schedule for my wall hangings...)

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[imoldfashioned]

This is a detail of The Burial of Count Orgaz, 1586-88, by El Greco. More information can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burial_of_the_Count_of_Orgaz

A great bargain too!

 

[Quigley Brown]

Thank you very much!:eusa_clap

Another print I bought was Goya's 'The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid.' That one I knew right away. There were a couple more I left behind. I now have a feeling all the paintings were Spanish art. I wonder who the donors were?

 

[imoldfashioned]

Glad that Art History degree of mine was good for sumthin' Quigley!

I think there must have been a real fad for Spanish art in the late 50's/early 60's because I've seen a number of really nice reproductions beautifully framed from that period.

I've been on the lookout for a nice reproduction of Vel?°zquez's Rokeby Venus or one of his lovely interior scenes with women (The Needlewoman, etc.) but all I can find is endless copies of Las Meninas. Ah, well! The hunt continues.

 

[Quigley Brown]

Do you think that's El Greco, third guy from the left, looking at the viewer?

 

[imoldfashioned]

That's been debated by art historians and I haven't read any positive proof that it is, but I'd lean towards saying yes based on the widely accepted self portraits of him;