The Opening of the Fifth Seal, also known as The Fifth Seal of the Apocalypse or The Vision of Saint John, was painted in the last years of El Greco's life for a side altar of the church of Saint John the Baptist outside the walls of Toledo. Before 1908 the painting had been known as Profane Love; the scholar Manuel B. Cossio doubted that title and proposed Opening of the Fifth Seal instead. It is held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which describes the canvas as unfinished and much damaged and abraded. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Opening of the Fifth Seal, also known as The Fifth Seal of the Apocalypse or The Vision of Saint John, was painted in the last years of El Greco's life for a side altar of the church of Saint John the Baptist outside the walls of Toledo.
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