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. 2015 Nov 13;30(2):287–303. doi: 10.1038/eye.2015.197

Figure 8.

Figure 8

El Greco's elongations. (a) El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (1541–1614): St. Jerome as Scholar, ca. 1610. The saint is elongated vertically, but his left hand is horizontal; and the neither the book nor his tunic buttons seem distorted. (b) El Greco: Christ Cleansing the Temple (probably before 1570). This early painting is quite realistic. Image details: (a) Oil on canvas (108 × 89 cm). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. (b) Oil on panel (65 × 83). National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: Samuel H Kress Collection.