Monastery of Saint Dominic of Silos (the Old)

Its rebuilding after the Conquest of Toledo by King Alfonso VI of Leon and Castile is mentioned by the historian Pedro de Alcocer.

The convent underwent major rebuilding work in the second half of the 16th century, in which the mudéjar church was demolished.

One of his first commissions in the city, which he gained with the aid of his patron Diego de Castilla, was to provide altarpieces for the convent's church.

Some of the component canvases remain in situ, but the main altar now features a replica of the largest of them, The Assumption of the Virgin, which is in the Art Institute of Chicago.

[2] Decades later El Greco provided a work intended to hang above his own tomb, The Adoration of the Shepherds (now in the Museo del Prado).