109.2 x 88.6 cm. (43 x 34.9 in.) ...

The Italians called him El Greco, meaning the Greek ... Christ on the Mount of Olives. Saint Francis at prayer. The apostles Peter and Paul. The Holy Family. Mary Magdalene.

Another is an image of St. Jerome, seated in his study ... two years ago in The Independent. He compared El Greco’s work to “the canvases of Peter Doig, finished enough but never too much.” ...

Few masterpieces are as ambitious as El Greco's The Burial of the Count of ... Over her shoulder in yellow robes sits St. Peter. Lazarus rising from his grave can be found on the far right ...

“St. John the Baptist” (c. 1600) features the background sky roiling with light-shot clouds and rising like a curtain that we have learned to see as distinctive of El Greco’s paintings.

as well as revealing the messy edges of the canvas where El Greco wiped excess paint from his brushes. The other saint displayed here, “St. Benedict,” entered the Prado’s collection in 1872.

But most importantly, there were paintings by El Greco, whom Zuloaga considered “the God of painting.” And one among them stood out: The Vision of Saint John. This painting as it currently ...

El Greco’s divine painting of Saint Martin has the power, and the legs, to transcend the everyday The legs, both human and equine, are what animate this picture by the great El Greco.

El Greco's The Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane ... seen kneeling in the centre - was accompanied by the three apostles St Peter, St John and St James the Greater, who can be seen sleeping ...

Doménikos Theotokópoulos, known as El Greco, painted Saint Sebastian in three district versions, and the Romanian government ...