At the end of his career El Greco painted one of his most colourful works, The Adoration of the Shepherds, which was intended to decorate El Greco's tomb in one of the chapels of the Santo Domingo El Antiguo in Toledo. He also returned to subjects and compositions formulated earlier: The Purification of the Temple, St Jerome as a Scholar, St Sebastian. He reached the final expression of the type 'Saint in ecstasy' in Saint Jerome Penitent.

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Preview	Picture Data	File Info	Comment
	The Purification of the Temple after 1610 Oil on canvas, 106 x 104 cm Parish Church of San Ginés, Madrid	1000*1031 True Color 192 Kb
	St Jerome as a Scholar 1600-14 Oil on canvas, 108 x 89 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	1000*1224 True Color 124 Kb
	St Jerome as a Scholar (detail) 1600-14 Oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	900*1215 True Color 86 Kb
	Saint Jerome Penitent 1610-14 Oil on canvas, 166 x 110 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington	800*1213 True Color 123 Kb
	Portrait of Cardinal Tavera 1608-14 Oil on canvas, 103 x 83 cm Hospital Tavera, Toledo	700*861 True Color 82 Kb
	St Sebastian 1610-14 Oil on canvas, 115 x 85 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid	800*1101 True Color 138 Kb
	The Marriage of the Virgin 1613-14 Oil on canvas, 110 x 83 cm Muzeul National de Arta, Bucharest	900*1182 True Color 180 Kb
	The Adoration of the Shepherds c. 1614 Oil on canvas, 319 x 180 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid	891*1600 True Color 154 Kb
	The Adoration of the Shepherds (detail) c. 1614 Oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid	800*972 True Color 108 Kb