• When Picasso was working on Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, he visited his friend Zuloaga in his studio in Paris and studied El Greco's Opening of the Fifth Seal.
  • The Opening of the Fifth Seal (or The Fifth Seal of the Apocalypse or The Vision of Saint John) was painted in the last years of El Greco's life for a side-altar of the church...
  • The Opening of the Fifth Seal is a large fragment of one of three altarpieces El Greco contracted to paint in 1608 for the church of the Hospital of Saint John the...
  • The Vision of St. John (The Opening of the Fifth Seal) by El Greco, c.1608-14.
  • Amidst hundreds of works authenticated to El Greco, Opening of the Fifth Seal [1608 – 16140] stands as one of his masterpieces that inspired Pablo Picasso to...
  • Let’s take a closer look at some of the most interesting facts about “Opening of the Fifth Seal” by El Greco, one of the artist’s amazing masterpieces.
  • The Opening of the Fifth Seal by El Greco was painted during the last years of the artist’s life.
  • The Opening of the Fifth Seal is a large fragment of one of three altarpieces El Greco contracted to paint in 1608 for the church of the Hospital of St John the...
  • The Opening of the Fifth Seal (The Vision of St John), oil on canvas, by El Greco, 1608-1614, 222,3 x 193 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
  • label QS:Len,"The Vision of Saint John, or The Opening of the Fifth Seal".
  • The Opening of the Fifth Seal, 1608 by El Greco is entirely handmade without use of artificial methods.
  • The upper panel ofThe Opening of the Fifth Seal” is cut off, now lost, and some have suggested that this painting was originally intended to show earthly love...