El Greco's Burial of the Lord of Orgaz | B2 Spanish
Read a B2 Spanish text about El Greco's Toledo masterpiece, its documented history, composition, legend, and religious symbols.
El entierro del señor de Orgaz: dos mundos en un lienzo
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What you'll learn
B2 art vocabulary, reported legends, visual description, passive forms, and iconographic interpretation
A nonfiction B2 reading about El Greco's Burial of the Lord of Orgaz. It explains the 1586 commission, the painting's two-part composition, the legend it represents, and why the original remains tied to Santo Tomé in Toledo.
After reading
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Phrases, words, grammar, and quick practice from this text.
Phrases for training
Add useful phrases to SRS or mark them as already known.
en el lugar para el que fue creado
newin the place for which it was created
This phrase links an object to its intended original setting.
Useful when explaining site-specific art and architecture.
Según la leyenda
newAccording to legend
It clearly attributes a traditional story instead of presenting it as verified history.
Useful for separating belief, tradition, and documented fact.
A primera vista
newAt first glance
Introduces an immediate visual observation before closer analysis.
Useful in descriptions of paintings, places, and diagrams.
más de dos siglos después
newmore than two centuries later
Expresses a long interval between two historical events.
Useful for building precise timelines.
mandas anuales
newannual bequests
In a will, mandas are gifts or payments left to a person or institution.
Useful for understanding historical wills and patronage.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
Canvas
lienzo
canvas
A lienzo is the fabric support of many oil paintings and can also mean the painting itself.
Essential vocabulary for discussing painting.
Commission
encargo
commission
An encargo is work requested from an artist or professional.
Useful in art history and professional contexts.
Tomb
sepulcro
tomb
A sepulcro is a place or structure where a dead person is buried.
Useful in historical, religious, and archaeological texts.
Earthly
terrenal
earthly
Terrenal refers to the earth or human material life, as opposed to heaven.
Useful for explaining religious and symbolic contrasts.
Heavenly
celestial
heavenly
Celestial refers to heaven or the sky and contrasts here with terrenal.
Useful in art, religion, and figurative description.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Ser passive
fue creado
was created
Ser plus a participle focuses on the action received by the subject.
Useful when the maker is secondary or already known.
Past perfect
Había contribuido
had contributed
Había plus a participle places an action before another past reference point.
Useful for ordering events in a historical account.
Passive se
se distinguen
two parts can be distinguished
With se distinguen, the plural verb agrees with dos partes while the observer stays unnamed.
Useful for objective visual descriptions.
Modal passive
puede leerse
can be read
Poder plus the passive se infinitive presents an interpretation as possible, not absolute.
Useful for cautious analysis and argument.
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