"The inventory of the chapel of the Hospital Tavera in 1622 first mentions a "new, gilded monstrance with a transparent monstrance, and in it a marbled box containing the Blessed Sacrament, with four beams, and in it at the top, the four doctors, and in twelve niches, twelve quarter-size, gilded saints". A little further on he adds ""Un Xpo, rresucitado que esta dentro de la custodia"". This monstrance, which the inventory describes as new as it was gilded that year, was the first commission, together with the Risen Christ, that El Greco received in 1595 from the Hospital Tavera on the instructions of its administrator, Pedro Salazar de Mendoza. Both pieces have been restored on the occasion of the fourth centenary of the Cretan's death, the monstrance or tabernacle by the Fundación Casa Ducal de Medinaceli, under the guidance of its patron, Fernando Marías, and the Resurrection by the Museo del Prado. The aim of the restoration was to restore its character as a unitary work of architecture and sculpture, which was emphasised in the contradictory appraisals carried out in 1598 to establish its price".
