The Art Institute acquired a standout work in the show, The Assumption of the Virgin, at the suggestion of Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt in 1906. A career-altering commission for El Greco ...

It was there that the painter received his first major Spanish commission, a complex series of altarpiece paintings ... exhibition “El Greco: Ambition and Defiance.” The Virgin’s upward ...

Few masterpieces are as ambitious as El Greco's The Burial of the Count of ... John the Baptist on the right and his mother, the Virgin Mary, on the left. Over her shoulder in yellow robes ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Conservator Frank Zuccari and “The Assumption of the Virgin,” a painting by El Greco that he worked for more than two years to restore. Fred Schneider ...

Throughout his career, Picasso sought out the Old Masters, wrestling with the works of Velázquez, Rembrandt and El Greco in his search for an avant-garde language. “The art of great painters ...

Spain’s Prado Museum is mounting an exhibit that brings together the works the Greek painter Doménikos Theotokópoulos, better known as El Greco ... the Virgin Mary ascends to heaven on ...

better known as El Greco. It was there that the painter received his first major Spanish commission, a complex series of altarpiece paintings. Thirty-seven years later, he was buried there ...