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Concert of Angels
Spanish: Concierto de ángeles
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Artist	El Greco
Year	1608 (1608)
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	112 cm × 205 cm (44 in × 81 in)
Location	National Gallery of Greece, Athens

Concert of Angels is a work of El Greco in oil on canvas from 1608, during his last period in Toledo, Spain. It is exhibited at the National Gallery in Athens.

Created at the end of his life, art historians have disputed whether this painting is a finished work or part of a working study for a commission of the Annunciation for the chapel of the Hospital de Tavera. It is not an independent composition but a cut-down fragment of the whole.^[1] It shows a celestial choir of angels, some of them with their backs to the viewer.^[2] Designed to hang high above the head of the viewer, the very extended heads and the anatomy of the characters show the influence of Michelangelo, though there are probably retouchings by Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli, the son of the painter. It once formed part of a threesome of paintings for the chapel. It is unknown when the paintings were removed from the chapel. It is also unknown when this painting was cut down, but Tiziana Frati assumes it was done in the latter half of the 19th century. Stylistically it is similar to the concert of angels seen at the top of El Greco's annunciation in the Prado.

Old photo of chapel interior

Old photo of chapel interior
Annunciation reconstruction with Madrid fragment

Annunciation reconstruction with Madrid fragment
Prado version of the Annunciation

Prado version of the Annunciation
Vision of St John (also cut down, upper portion unknown)

Vision of St John (also cut down, upper portion unknown)
Baptism of Christ (still in Toledo)

Baptism of Christ (still in Toledo)

References

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^ Catalog nr. 173, in Tiziana Feti's catalog of El Greco paintings, 1969
^ Entry on museum website

Bibliography

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Álvarez Lopera, José. El Greco. Madrid: Arlanza, 2005. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
Scholz-Hänsel, Michael. El Greco. Colonia: Taschen, 2003. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..

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Paintings	Adoration of the Magi (Athens, c. 1565–1567) Dormition of the Virgin (1565–1566) Healing of the Man Born Blind Dresden, 1567 Parma, c. 1573 Modena Triptych (1567–1569) Baptism of Christ (Heraklion, 1567–1569) Last Supper (1568) Flight into Egypt (1570) Annunciation Prado, 1570 Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1575–1576 Illescas, 1600–1605 Purification of the Temple Washington, 1570 Minneapolis, 1570 New York, 1595–1600 London, 1600 Madrid, 1609 The Fable (1570–1575) Entombment of Christ (1570–1576) El Soplón (1571–1572) Pietà (1571–1576) Penitent Magdalene (1576–1578) Saint Sebastian (1576–1579) Santo Domingo el Antiguo Altarpiece (1577) Saint Lawrence's Vision of the Madonna and Child (1577) Adoration of the Holy Name of Jesus (1577–1579) (preparatory sketch) Assumption of the Virgin (1577–1579) Disrobing of Christ (El Expolio) (1577–1579) Holy Trinity (c. 1577–1579) Saint Anthony of Padua (1580) Christ Carrying the Cross New York, c. 1580 Barcelona, 1590–1595 Madrid, 1597–1600 The Martyrdom of Saint Maurice (1580–1582) The Tears of Saint Peter Barnard Castle, 1580–1589 Mexico City, 1587–1596 Oslo, c. 1590 San Diego, c. 1590–1595 Sitges, c. 1595–1600 Toledo, El Greco Museum, c. 1595–1600 Washington, c. 1600–1605 Toledo, Lerma Museum Foundation, c. 1605–1610 Toledo Cathedral, 1620–1630 The Immaculate Conception with Saint John the Evangelist (c. 1585) Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (Baltimore, c. 1585) The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1586) Holy Family (1586–1588) Holy Face of Jesus (1586–1595) Saint Peter and Saint Paul Barcelona, 1587–1592 Saint Petersburg, c. 1587–1592 Agony in the Garden London, 1590 Andújar, 1597–1607 Christ on the Cross Adored by Two Donors (c. 1590) Saint Louis (1592–1595) Virgin Mary (Mater Dolorosa) (c. 1594–1604) Holy Family (c. 1595) Christ Taking Leave of his Mother (1595) Saint Andrew and Saint Francis (1595–1598) Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (Pau, before 1595) Adoration of the Shepherds Bucharest, 1596 Rome, 1596–1600 Valencia, 1602 New York, 1605–1610 Madrid, 1612–1614 Doña María de Aragón Altarpiece (1596–1599) View of Toledo (1596–1600) Baptism of Christ (Rome, 1596–1600) Virgin Mary (1597) Saint Martin and the Beggar (1597–1599) The Virgin of Charity (1597–1603) Allegory of the Camaldolese Order (c. 1597) Saint John the Baptist (1597–1607) Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Francis (c. 1600) Saint Bernardino of Siena (1603) Nativity (1603–1605) Coronation of the Virgin (1603–1605) Marriage of the Virgin (1603–1607) Saint John the Evangelist (c. 1605) The Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Hyacinth (c. 1605–1610) The Immaculate Conception (1607–1613) Saint Peter (1608) View and Plan of Toledo (1608) Concert of Angels (1608) The Saviour (1608–1614) Saint Thomas the Apostle (1608–1614) Opening of the Fifth Seal (1608–1614) Saint Jerome (1609) Saint Ildefonsus (1609) Saint Francis and Brother Leo (1609) Saint James the Great (1610) Saint Luke (1610–1614) Laocoön (1610–1614) Saint Paul (1610–1614) Saint Sebastian (c.1610–1614) Saint Sebastian (1610–1614) Julián Romero and Saint Julian (1612–1614)
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Museums	El Greco Museum, Toledo Museum of El Greco, Crete
Related	Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli (son) Lady in Ermine (1947 film) El Greco (1966 film) El Greco (1998 album) El Greco (2007 film) El Greco fallacy

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