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Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.
The central figure is the man in the white blouse and yellow pants. He is holding up his arms and kneeling in a puddle of blood. The french soldiers are pointing their guns at him.
All the people are looking at the important thing: the hands of Mary and Joseph in the Marriage of the Virgin.
El Greco has depicted God in an unorthodox way. The mitre, usually a bishop's headdress, serves here to clearly distinguish God from the surrounding angels. There is no definite tradition how to depict God, the Father. It is sometimes said the God should not be depicted in a painting. This is not true; there are hundreds of paintings of God.
Not clothed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Akira says: nude -adjective 1. naked or unclothed, as a person or the body. 2. without the usual coverings, furnishings, etc.; bare: a nude stretch of land laid waste by brush fires. 3. (of a photograph, painting, statue, etc.) being or prominently displaying a representation of the nude human figure. 4. Law. made without a consideration or other legal essential: a nude contract. 5. having the color nude. noun 6. a sculpture, painting, etc., of a nude human figure. 7. an unclothed human figure. 8. the condition of being unclothed: to sleep in the nude. 9. a light grayish-yellow brown to brownish-pink color. ---- Related forms: nudely, adverb nudeness, noun Synonyms: 1. uncovered, undressed, undraped, exposed. Antonyms: 1. covered.