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 ...

By about 1600, in another version of Christ driving the traders and money ... the waist-length donor figures at the foot of the cross. El Greco’s portraits are simply presented: a pale central ...

The Italians called him El Greco, meaning the Greek ... you into Greco’s paintings and hold you. The sky behind Christ on the Cross is a black, blue and grey vortex that threatens to crush ...

El Greco's The Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane tells the story of the first event in the story of Christ's Passion, or the Easter Story. The Agony in the Garden refers specifically to the events ...

Christ of St John of the Cross is being loaned to the Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland by Glasgow Life Museums. It will be displayed alongside El Greco's Christ on the Cross, which was bought by ...

El Greco, born Dominikos Theotokopoulos but known ... His most famous paintings include Biblical scenes like The Disrobing of Christ (1577-79) and The Assumption of the Virgin (1577-97), and ...