Guess What

By El Greco. (1614)
Oil on canvas, 137 x 172 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
CC Flickr User Cea

This painting by El Greco should not be as familiar as a marble sculpture on the same topic.

For those more interested in the topic's connection with art history than its classical allusion, here's another hint:

It appears in the title of a seminal piece of art criticism whose author liked Abstract Expressionism (e.g., Jackson Pollock).

Literary Hint: Reference to the topic/sculpture appears in Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".

Relateds:

• Vergil and the Classical Tradition
• Prophecy in the Ancient World
• Introduction to "A History of Roman Literature"

Answer.