In Burial of Count Orgaz (Fig. 22-19), which style did El Greco recall with the crowded pictorial field and obscured spatial setting of the scene?

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The crowded pictorial field and obscured spatial setting in Burial of Count Orgaz are typical of the Mannerist style, which El Greco recalled in this painting. Mannerism favored exaggeration, distortion, and complexity in art, in contrast to the more balanced and naturalistic approaches of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.