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El Greco room. Santa Cruz Museum. Toledo © Toledo
El Greco. 'Veronica with the Holy Face', between 1577-1580. Santa Cruz Museum. Toledo © Ministerio de Cultura

Essential works

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Well parapet

The piece is representative of the Islamic culture in Toledo. It was created to celebrate the end of construction of a water tank in the mosque complex in Toledo.
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Elephant head and tusks

Large elephant head. This is the only example in Toledo which conserves all its three parts: head, gums and tusks.
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Crown of the Virgin of Los Desamparados

Crown of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls and enamel made in Guatemala for Francisco Díaz de Salazar
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Christ of the Light

This image is representative of Gothic sculpture and belongs to the Santa Cruz Museum collections.
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Processional monstrance by Juan de Arfe

This monstrance has been identified with the one made by the artist in 1592 for the Carmen Extramuros Convent in Valladolid, which was considered lost. It is an example of ideal purity and classicism, which characterise Spanish silverwork at the end of the 16th century.
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Large jar with royal crest

This finely crafted piece is skilfully modelled and decorated with the spray technique, which is rarely used in pieces of large size and with a bulky shape.
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Hercules

Roman bronze depicting the figure of Hercules corresponding to the model of “Hercules Gaditanus”, a figure widely revered in Hispanic territories, and typified by this beautiful example found in Talavera de la Reina.
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The Assumption Oballe

This painting was finished the year before El Greco died and is considered to be one of the artist's greatest masterpieces, his "aesthetic testament" synthesising all his work to date.
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The Holy Family with St Anne and the Infant John the Baptist

It is considered to be one of the first versions of this iconography painted by El Greco.
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The Holy Family

A first-rate work from the Santa Cruz Museum collections in which Ribera displays his use of the tenebrist atmosphere, taken from Caravaggio's art.
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Collections

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