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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El Greco’s famous landscape ‘View of Toledo’ celebrates his adopted city and the sky above it El Greco’s real name was Domenikos Theotokopoulos. He was born in Crete (“el Greco” is Spanish for “the ...

Paris has the Louvre. New York has the Metropolitan Museum of Art. North Carolina has the Nasher Museum of Art. The museum that four years ago was just a field of weeds, is banking on the new exhibit, ...

El Greco, born Doménikos Theotokópoulos in Crete in 1541, was a master painter of the Spanish Renaissance known for his dramatic and expressive style. He trained as an icon painter in the Byzantine ...

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 ...

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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The conventual church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo, Spain, played a crucial role in the life and work of Doménikos Theotokópoulos, better known as El Greco. It was there that the painter ...