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 ...

Picasso himself said that what he most liked about El Greco’s work were the portraits, “all those gentlemen with pointed beards.” And yet El Greco’s influence on him went far deeper.

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.

El Greco. “A View of Toledo,” Ca. 1598-99. Oil on canvas. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) By Philip Kennicott. It has been 400 years since Domenikos Theotokopoulos died, in 1614, and in Spain ...

“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’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Art & Exhibitions El Greco’s Iconic Altarpieces Are Reunited For the First Time in Nearly 200 Years. The works completed for the Monastery of Santo Domingo el Antiguo were the artist's first ...

El Greco's artistic legacy remains immortalised in his religious and portrait paintings. What to expect from the exhibition? The works of Picasso and El Greco hang side by side at the El Prado Museum.