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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...