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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 ...

Bringing together major paintings and drawings by a paramount artist of the 20th century and one of the greatest artists of the 17th, “Picasso-El Greco” at the Kunstmuseum Basel invites viewers to ...

Run, don’t walk, to see an El Greco show. Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known as El Greco (1541–1614), is uniquely sublime and rarely had a bad day, so an exhibition of his work is certain to inspire. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Across the state line in Missouri, there was news last week of an older and more celebrated name in art: Spain’s 16th century (1541-1614) master, El Greco. Kansas City’s William Rockhill Nelson ...

‘We can define El Greco’s art by saying that what he did well none did better,” wrote an eighteenth-century Spanish critic, “and that what he did badly none did worse.” The critic was directing his ...

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