And this inward interpretation of life is seen, too, in that picture which is accounted rightly the most interesting, though not perhaps the most typical, of his work, ‘The Burial of Gonzalo Ruiz, Count of Orgaz,’ still in the Church of Santo Tomé, where it was painted in 1584. Look at this gallery of living portraits, all the life of Toledo--the life of Spain--is reflected back from those ardent faces. In St. Augustine, splendid in ecclesiastical robes, is the magnificent opulence of the Catholic Church; in the livid face of the dead count, in the cowled monk and two priests is the fervid piety of a people who have felt themselves in mystical communion with God; in the young, warm beauty of St. Stephen and the lovely acolyte is the full joy and rich colour of Spain; and lastly, in the long line of mourners who stand behind the group of the principal figures, and where the painter’s own nervous face is the sixth portrait counting from the right side, you have types unchanged in Castile to-day. And how individual is the rendering of the upper section of the picture in which Christ awaits in the heavens the spirit of the dead saint. Yes, this picture is one of the greatest pictures in Spain; it is always interesting. [Illustration: PLATE 1 TOLEDO _Specially drawn for The Spanish Series_] [Illustration: PLATE 2 GENERAL VIEW OF TOLEDO FROM THE SOUTH-EAST] [Illustration: PLATE 3 VIEW OF TOLEDO FROM THE SOUTH-EAST] [Illustration: PLATE 4 GENERAL VIEW OF TOLEDO] [Illustration: PLATE 5 VIEW OF TOLEDO FROM THE CAMPO DEL REY] [Illustration: PLATE 6 GENERAL VIEW OF TOLEDO] [Illustration: PLATE 7 STATE OF THE RUINS OF THE CIRCO MAXIMO IN THE YEAR 1848, ACCORDING TO THE “ALBUM ARTISTICO”] [Illustration: PLATE 8 THE RIVER TAGUS] [Illustration: PLATE 9 ALCANTARA BRIDGE] [Illustration: PLATE 10 PERSPECTIVE OF ST. MARTIN’S BRIDGE AND THE DIRECTION OF THE FORTIFIED LINES] [Illustration: PLATE 11 PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF THE SITE OF THE AQUEDUCT] [Illustration: PLATE 12 ENVIRONS OF TOLEDO] [Illustration: PLATE 13 PLAZA DE ZOCODOVER] [Illustration: PLATE 14 THE TOWN HALL] [Illustration: PLATE 15 THE MARKET-PLACE] [Illustration: PLATE 16 THE MARKET-PLACE] [Illustration: PLATE 17 A STREET IN TOLEDO] [Illustration: PLATE 18 A STREET IN TOLEDO] [Illustration: PLATE 19 A STREET IN TOLEDO] [Illustration: PLATE 20 A STREET IN TOLEDO] [Illustration: PLATE 21 A STREET IN TOLEDO] [Illustration: PLATE 22 A STREET IN TOLEDO] [Illustration: PLATE 23 A STREET IN TOLEDO] [Illustration: PLATE 24 A STREET IN TOLEDO] [Illustration: PLATE 25 VISAGRA GATE] [Illustration: PLATE 26 A STREET IN TOLEDO] [Illustration: PLATE 27 A STREET IN TOLEDO] [Illustration: PLATE 28 BRIDGE OF ALCANTARA] [Illustration: PLATE 29 ALCANTARA GATE ALCANTARA PORTAL AND BRIDGE] [Illustration: PLATE 30 EXTERIOR OF THE NORTHERN CITY WALLS] [Illustration: PLATE 31 FORTIFICATIONS OF THE OLD BRIDGE OF BOATS, REPLACED BY THE BRIDGE OF ST. MARTIN]