“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, “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 ...

A new investigation could end many of the speculations about the works of El Greco and the man himself. A hand-written annotation to a book, similar to the glosses of Saint Emilianus, found in Spain ...

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 ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. One Sunday in May this year, 52 residents voted to change the name of their village near Burgos, in northern Spain.

Detail from Christ Carrying the Cross, a work newly attributed to Greek painter El Greco Courtesy of CAEM Known for his elongated renderings of the human body and innovative use of color, El Greco is ...

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TOWARD the end of the 16th century a strange, aloof figure — came to the Spanish hilltop town of Toledo. His origins were obscure, and his name—Domenikos Theotokopoulos—was so difficult that he was ...