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El Greco, A Boy Blowing on an Ember to Light a Candle (El Soplón) (ca. 1570). Installation view of “El Greco: Ambition and Defiance,” 2020. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.

An art restorer in 1880 decided El Greco’s ‘The Vision of Saint John’ needed an improvement and—snip—excised a large portion of the masterpiece and tossed it in the trash.

“El Greco’s art is an anti-naturalist art. ... “The Adoration,” a 10-foot-tall work El Greco painted for his own tomb, is a prime example of his style.

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos). “Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple,” about 1570. The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The William Hood Dunwoody Fund.

“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 ...

The 400th anniversary of El Greco’s death this year put the National Gallery of Art in an unusual bind. As keepers of one of the largest collections of the painter’s work outside of Spain ...

Five years after El Greco’s death at 73, his body was moved from Santo Domingo to another church, and then all trace of it was lost. In time the currents of taste turned against El Greco.

El Greco’s “Saint Luke Painting the Virgin” (1560-66) and “Adoration of the Magi” (1560-1568), two icons in the show done in Greek Orthodox style, are both badly damaged.