Saint John, towering at the left, flings up his arms as the naked souls of martyrs writhe and reach for the robes of salvation described in Revelation. El Greco painted it in his last years for a church outside Toledo and left it unfinished. The painter Ignacio Zuloaga later owned it and showed it to Picasso, and it is often linked with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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At least 175 cm was cut from the top of the canvas in a botched restoration in 1880, which is why Saint John now gestures towards nothing.
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