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The Burial Of The Count Of Orgaz originated from the legend of a medieval: The Count Of Orgaz was a celebrated rich gentleman in Toledo, whose full name was Tang Gonzales Ruiz. As the Toledo's citizen, he was elected to the secretary of Cassidy La parish and had denoted much property to St. Meters church. Because of his devotion to the church, in 1312 when he died, he was buried in the church according to his last wish. But at the funeral, the amazing miracle happened: the kingdom of heaven sent two saints -Shinseki and Augustine - dropping from the clouds, personally buried him and took his body back to the earth. The painter arranged this legendary scene like this religious painting was divided into two parts, the upper part was the scene that the court was recalled to the heaven and the lower part was the bury scene. In the lower part, on the right of the coffin, a priest was religiously reading the scripture among the crowd; on the left, a monk was meditating while lowering his head, seeming to farewell to the dead. The crowd was arranged in dense formations and positioned in the main position in the bottom of the painting. The nobles and guests who came to offer condolences were dressed in black with while collar. Some people's expressions were very rich and some shuttled around. In fact, these people were the city of Toledo's well-connected. The painter used skilled sketch portraits to depict the characteristics of these standing neat figures. The priest on the right was wearing a white robe with a surprising expression staring at the sky so as to explain the sudden dropping miracle. A juvenile standing in the left held a torch in his right hand. And his eyes had left the holy book and his face was facing the audience. His left hand was pointing to two saints dropping from the clouds to draw the viewer's attention. 
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