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While museums around the globe are closed to the public, we are spotlighting each day an inspiring exhibition that was previously on view. Even if you can’t see it in person, allow us to give you a ...

Domenikos Theotokopoulos, roughly a contemporary of Shakespeare, died 400 years ago. The anniversary has prompted museums around the United States, including the Legion of Honor, to display the work ...

Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. By the time of his death in 1614, the artist Doménikos ...

Detail from Christ Carrying the Cross, a work newly attributed to Greek painter El Greco Courtesy of CAEM Known for his elongated renderings of the human body and innovative use of color, El Greco is ...

A new investigation could end many of the speculations about the works of El Greco and the man himself. A hand-written annotation to a book, similar to the glosses of Saint Emilianus, found in Spain ...

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Imagine spending a year – or more – restoring an artwork, trying to bring back the touch, or the brushstroke, of a master. That’s what Scott Heffley, senior conservator of paintings at the ...

The first major survey in France of the Greek artist Doménikos Theotokópoulos (1541-1614), better known as El Greco, will open at the Grand Palais this week. Seventy-six works will be exhibited—from ...

How did El Greco move from painting icons on the island of Crete to the elongated, expressionist works that made him famous and influenced artists like Pablo Picasso and Paul Cézanne? To mark the ...