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 ...

Even El Greco’s portraits (nearly half the show, if one includes biblical or historical figures as well as portraits of his contemporaries), while capturing their subjects, go beyond mere reality.

O ne of the last portraits El Greco painted was of a man dead some 70 years. The picture is one of the most striking, and least familiar, in a fine new book of reproductions released last week ...

El Greco’s portraits are simply presented: a pale central figure looks straight out from darkness. Jerónimo de Cevallos (ca. 1610) has an immense, casually sketched-in white ruff and sable-hued ...

A new Met exhibition positions El Greco as religiously driven. But many art historians question his motivations.

“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 ... One room of the exhibit is given over to El Greco’s portraits, ...

El Greco to Velazquez to Lopez. April 24, 2008. Andrea Shea; The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has a new addition. Well two, actually: a pair of massive bronze baby heads, poised on the MFA's ...

Art experts have established that a painting once exhibited in the Louvre is not by renowned artist El Greco as previously thought. Lady in a Fur Wrap, normally displayed in Pollok House in ...

In this video, titled “A New Way to Knit,” artist Petros Vrellis creates amazingly complex portraits on a loom using just one very long piece of black thread.

Art experts have established that a painting once exhibited in the Louvre is not by renowned artist El Greco as previously thought. Thursday, 21 November 2024 Newsletters ...