was probably created near the end of the artist's Cretan period. The painting combines post-Byzantine and Italian mannerist stylistic and iconographic elements.
In the portrait of Clovio, friend and supporter in Rome of the young Cretan artist, the first evidence of El Grecos gifts as a portraitist are apparent.
now El Greco's best known work, illustrates a popular local legend. An exceptionally large painting, it is clearly divided into two zones: the heavenly above and the terrestrial below, brought together compositionally.