In his later portraits El Greco increasingly reduces the role of the body of his sitters, omitting all the props and attributes of their rank, and he attempts to reveal the whole being of them. He painted around 1600 the Portrait of a Man (an assumed self-portrait), a fine and particularly compelling portrait, the moving portrait of his friend Antonio de Covarrubias, and the awesome portrait of the Grand Inquisitor, a celebrated picture which has become synonymous not only with El Greco but with Spain and the Spanish Inquisition.

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Preview	Picture Data	File Info	Comment
	The Purification of the Temple c. 1600 Oil on canvas, 42 x 52 cm Frick Collection, New York	1076*850 True Color 205 Kb
	The Purification of the Temple c. 1600 Oil on canvas, 106 x 130 cm National Gallery, London	1060*850 True Color 159 Kb
	The Purification of the Temple (detail) c. 1600 Oil on canvas National Gallery, London	950*1095 True Color 190 Kb
	The Purification of the Temple (detail) c. 1600 Oil on canvas National Gallery, London	850*1127 True Color 184 Kb
	The Disrobing of Christ c. 1600 Oil on canvas, 129 x 160 cm Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest	834*654 True Color 105 Kb
	St Jerome as Cardinal c. 1600 Oil on canvas, 59 x 48 cm National Gallery, London	667*850 True Color 104 Kb
	The Repentant Peter c. 1600 Oil on canvas, 94 x 75 cm Phillips Collection, Washington	822*1038 True Color 181 Kb
	St. John the Baptist c. 1600 Oil on canvas, 111 x 66 cm Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco	850*1423 True Color 150 Kb
	Sts John the Evangelist and Francis c. 1600 Oil on canvas, 110 x 87 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence	1100*1400 True Color 283 Kb
	Christ as Saviour c. 1600 Oil on canvas, 73 x 56,5 cm National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh	850*1096 True Color 139 Kb
	An Allegory with a Boy Lighting a Candle in the Company of an Ape and a Fool (Fábula) c. 1600 Oil on canvas, 50 x 64 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid	1300*1012 True Color 179 Kb
	Portrait of a Cardinal c. 1600 Oil on canvas, 171 x 108 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	691*1110 True Color 190 Kb
	Portrait of a Cardinal (detail) c. 1600 Oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	1100*900 True Color 192 Kb
	Portrait of a Man 1595-1600 Oil on canvas, 53 x 47 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	1000*1122 True Color 177 Kb
	Antonio de Covarrubias c. 1600 Oil on canvas, 67,5 x 57,5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	1000*1192 True Color 140 Kb
	Diego de Covarrubias c. 1600 Oil on canvas, 67 x 55 cm Museo de El Greco, Toledo	1000*1213 True Color 152 Kb