Hand-written Note Shows El Greco Defending Byzantine Style In Face Of Western Art Date: December 18, 2008 Source: Plataforma SINC Summary: A new investigation could end many of the speculations ...

“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 ...

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Art Institute celebrates El Greco on a lavish scale befitting Greek master’s grandest work “El Greco: Ambition and Defiance” will be the first show anywhere devoted to the famed artist in 15 ...

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.

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” will be on view at the Met from Oct. 7 through Jan. 11 and is the first El Greco retrospective to appear in the United States in more than 20 years.

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 ...