It was long thought El Greco's son painted the altarpiece. El Greco, Baptism of Christ (ca.1614) Toledo, Hospital de Tavera. Photo: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. The team developed ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before he became “El Greco,” the renowned Old Master admired by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne and Eugène Delacroix was simply Doménikos Theotokópoulos (1541–1614), an icon painter from ...

Bringing together major paintings and drawings by a paramount artist of the 20th century and one of the greatest artists of the 17th, “Picasso-El Greco” at the Kunstmuseum Basel invites viewers to ...

Throughout his career, Picasso sought out the Old Masters, wrestling with the works of Velázquez, Rembrandt and El Greco in his search for an avant-garde language. “The art of great painters who live ...

“View of Toledo” (about 1598—99) by El Greco. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929./Art Institute of Chicago) Perspective by ...

The old master painter El Greco was multinational. He established himself as an artist in his birthplace, the Greek isle of Crete, before working in Venice and Rome. Eager for prestigious commissions, ...

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 ...