In the seafaring lands of Spain and Portugal, we'll learn how plunder and trade funded art from lacy Manueline cloisters to the mystical beauty of El Greco. Following the Renaissance north ...

the artist who came to be known as El Greco was a proto-Modernist painter who managed to carve out a distinct career for himself in the midst of the Italian Renaissance, vying for commissions ...

A career-altering commission for El Greco, the work—created shortly after his move to Toledo—demonstrates “Renaissance assimilations brought to maturity,” writes Jackie Wullschläger for ...

For though El Greco’s mesmerizing oeuvre stands at a ... course from medieval icon-painting to the glories of the Italian Renaissance and the Golden Age of Spanish painting to the emergence ...

It’s easy to say that El Greco was ‘ahead of his time’, a modern artist born too soon. But in their recent, groundbreaking book Anachronic Renaissance, the art historians Alexander Nagel and ...

Picasso — El Greco, an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel, revisits Picasso’s admiration for the great painters of the Renaissance, in particular his life-long obsession with one of the most ...

Spain’s Prado Museum is mounting an exhibit that brings together the works the Greek painter Doménikos Theotokópoulos, better known as El Greco, completed for the Monastery of Santo Domingo el ...