11. Domenicus Lampsonius, Pictorum aliquot celebrium Germaniae inferiores effigies, Hieronymus Cock, Amberes, 1572.
12. Wilhelm Fraenger, Hieronymus Bosch, p. 84.
13. Manuel Fernández Álvarez, Felipe II, Espasa, Madrid, 2010, p. 505. According to the inventories, the horns were sold in 1603.
Chapter 14: The Secret Family of Brueghel the Elder
1. According to the Boletín del Museo del Prado (vol. 11, no. 29, p. 117), in 1990 this museum in Madrid had a record 2,529,995 visitors.
2. H. Stein-Schneider, Pieter Brueghel. Peintre hérétique. Illustrateur du message familiste, en Gazette des Beaux-Arts, #57 (1986), pp. 71–74.
3. A more recent edition exists: Karel van Mander, Het Schilderboek, Wereldbibliotheek, Amsterdam, 1995.
4. Charles de Tolnay, Pierre Brueghel l’ancien, 2 vols., Nouvelle Société d’Éditions, Brussels, 1935.
5. Alastair Hamilton, The Family of Love, James & Clark, Cambridge, 1981, p. 37.
Chapter 15: El Greco’s “Other Humanity”
1. A complete summary of this myth can be found in my book, En busca de la Edad de Oro, Plaza & Janés, Barcelona, 2006, p.50ff.
2. H. Stein-Schneider, “Une secte néo-cathare du 16e siècle et leur peintre Pieter Brueghel l’Ancien,” in Cahiers d’Études Cathares, vol. 36, 105 (1985), pp. 3–44.
3. Lynda Harris, The Secret Heresy of Hyeronimus Bosch, Floris Books, Edinburgh, 1995.
4. Years after this conversation, on May 19, 2002, John Paul II canonized Alonso de Orozco, and added him to the Calendar of Saints.
5. Alonso de Orozco, Confesiones del beato Alonso de Orozco del Orden de Ermitaños de N. P. San Agustín, bk. 1, chap. 6, Imprenta de Amigos del País, Manila, 1882, p. 14.
6. Richard G. Mann, El Greco and his Patrons: Three Major Projects, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. A Spanish translation also exists: El Greco y sus patronos, Akal, Madrid, 1994.
7. The Master is referring to a small painting by El Greco of approximately 8 by 10 inches from about 1570, which shows the Archangel Gabriel extending his arm toward Mary as he announces to her that she is to become a mother.
8. Exodus 3:2–5.
9. Ricardo Jorge, “Nova contribução biografica, crítica e médica no estudo do pintor Doménico Theotocopuli,” Revista da Universidade de Coimbra 1, no. 4 (1912).
10. Elías Tormo y Monzo, speeches from the Madrid Athenaeum, April 7, 21, and 28, 1900. Included in José Álvarez Lopera, De Ceán a Cossío: la fortuna crítica del Greco en el siglo xix, Fundación Universitaria Española, Madrid, 1987, vol. 2, pp. 489–90.
11. Juan Sánchez Gallego, Esoterismo en la pintura de El Greco: el entierro del Conde de Orgaz, Rosa Libros, Seville, 2006.
LIST OF PRADO-OWNED PAINTINGS MENTIONED IN THE BOOK
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Angelico, Fra,The Annunciation, 16, 262
Bosch, Hieronymus, Cutting the Stone, 203
Bosch, Hieronymus, The Garden of Earthly Delights, or The Millennial Reign (gatefold)
Bosch, Hieronymus, The Haywain, 203
Bosch, Hieronymus, The Seven Deadly Sins, 202
Bosch, Hieronymus, The Temptation of St. Anthony, 203
Botticelli, Sandro, The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, I, II, III, 116, 117, 119, 121
Brueghel the Elder, Pieter, The Triumph of Death (gatefold)
El Greco, Resurrection, 248
El Greco, The Incarnation, 260, 261
El Greco, The Nobleman with His Hand on His Chest, 24
El Greco,The Crucifixion, 259, 263
Goya, Francisco, Majas, 106
Juanes, Juan de, Christ with the Eucharist, 177
Juanes, Juan de, The Last Supper, 171, 173
Leoni, Pompeo, Carlos V and the Fury, 150
Luini, Bernardino, The Holy Family, 98
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban, St. Augustine between Christ and the Virgin, 20
Patinir, Joachim, Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx, 203
Patinir, Joachim, Landscape with St. Jerome, 203
Penni, Giovanni Francesco, The Transfiguration (a copy of the original by Raphael), 81
Raphael, Portrait of a Cardinal, 24, 27
Raphael, School of, The Visitation, 17
Raphael, The Holy Family with an Oak Tree, 21, 71
Raphael, The Holy Family, or The Pearl, 3, 13
Ribalta, Francisco, St. Francis Comforted by an Angel, 20
Rubens, Peter Paul, Adam and Eve, 161
Tintoretto,The Foot Washing, 161
Titian, Adam and Eve, 161
Titian, Carlos V at the Battle of Mühlberg, 162, 163
Titian, The Glory (The Trinity), 151, 154, 157
Velázquez, Diego, Maids of Honor, 247
Velázquez, Diego, The Triumph of Bacchus, 247
Veronese, Paolo, Christ among the Doctors in the Temple, 161
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