Even ifyoudo not actively believe in a particularreligion, you will beconcerned with an aspectof the universethat is higher than everyday materialreality.
More than its blended iconography or august, prayerful figures, however, the painter's pictorial language defines El Greco's vision of heaven: The amorphous, billowing clouds, silvery palette and mannered, phantomlike personages who float in indeterminate space and time (including, prematurely, Spain's King Philip II) defy the laws and logic of materialreality to conjure another realm.