El Greco fused his Byzantine heritage with Venetian colorism and Mannerist invention, creating a style unlike any of his time. His saints and prophets rise in elongated ecstasy, their bodies stretched heavenward as if pulled by divine rapture. Bathed in silvery light and set against storm-laden skies, his figures embody the fervor of the Counter-Reformation—art designed not to persuade by reason but to overwhelm through vision. Mysticism here becomes form itself, dissolving the boundary between flesh and transcendence.