“The most modern of Old Masters” declares a text panel at the beginning of this fall’s stunning El Greco retrospective at the Metropolitan. Hyperbole, maybe, but it’s easy to agree when we become ...

The Louvre has had an exceptionally tough year securing star loans from its peers. The Paris museum had hoped to borrow three key works by El Greco from the Prado, but the Madrid museum declined the ...

Reviews of “El Greco in New York” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, “El Greco at the National Gallery and Washington-Area Collections: A 400th Anniversary Celebration,” and “El Greco at The ...

El Greco’s The Baptism of Christ is as famous for its striking imagery as for the enduring mystery behind it. Experts long believed that the 17th-century oil painting—which depicts Saint John the ...

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 ...

Spanish Renaissance master El Greco is often considered one of the greatest painters of all time, and many of his artworks are displayed in galleries around the world. His painting The Baptism of ...

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 ...

At a small exhibit at the Historical Museum of Crete, a visiting artist gazes at an early religious painting by El Greco. "The Baptism of Christ" is a vividly colored, two-dimensional, egg ...

The genius known as El Greco started his working life as icon painter Doménikos Theotokópoulos on the Greek island of Crete. He ended it as the undisputed giant of 16th century Spanish art. Ever since ...

El Greco's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices of up to 13,972,693 USD for paintings, and 149,935 USD for works on papers. In the past 12 months, his paintings have ...