El Greco, “The Apostle Luke Painting the Virgin Hodegetria (c.1564), egg tempera on panel, 41 x 33 cm; Benaki Museum, Athens; © Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece; gift ...

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The painter had mixed fortunes in life, but his works are receiving the royal treatment in Crete and Spain on the 400th anniversary of his death. 400 Years After Death, El Greco Receives Celebration ...

On “El Greco of Toledo” at the Prado, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. There is something at once unsettling and gratifying ...

The Vatican has announced the discovery of a newly identified painting by Mannerist painter El Greco, Artnet News reports. Titled The Redeemer and dating to the late 1500s, the piece was uncovered by ...

Theodore K. Rabb is the author of "Renaissance Lives: Portraits of an Age." Among the Old Masters, none is more immediately recognizable than El Greco. We may think we can spot a Rembrandt, but Dutch ...

‘We can define El Greco’s art by saying that what he did well none did better,” wrote an eighteenth-century Spanish critic, “and that what he did badly none did worse.” The critic was directing his ...

The celebrated 16th century painter El Greco may have depicted his own neurological issues in a self-portrait he painted late in life. A team of researchers has recently suggested that historical and ...

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