A new exhibition entitled PAINTED GOLD. El Greco and the Art between Crete and Venice has just opened at the Doge's Palace in ...

better known as El Greco. It was there that the painter received his first major Spanish commission, a complex series of altarpiece paintings. Thirty-seven years later, he was buried there ...

The Mannerist movement, named after the Italian word for “style,” emphasized artists’ technical virtuosity over the objective naturalism of the High Renaissance. El Greco is remembered as ...