Bailey sees in that aspect of El Greco’s art part of its appeal to modern eyes. “In some ways the 20th century responded to him as a visionary expressionist,” Bailey said.

Art Institute celebrates El Greco on a lavish scale befitting Greek master’s grandest work “El Greco: Ambition and Defiance” will be the first show anywhere devoted to the famed artist in 15 ...

On View El Greco Defied the Odds to Become One of the Most Pathbreaking Painters in Art History. See Why His Work Endures Here. While museums are closed to the public, we are spotlighting an ...

El Greco’s painting of Saint Martin is divine, ... Great Works, In Focus. A series featuring art critic Sebastian Smee’s favorite works in permanent collections around the United States.

“View of Toledo” (about 1598—99) by El Greco. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H.O. Havemeyer Collection, ... El Greco’s paintings could be useful to us now.

On Tuesday, three museums in New York City—including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hispanic Society of America, and the Frick Collection—will bring out El Greco paintings from their ...

For centuries, Spanish Renaissance painter El Greco was a non-entity. No one studied his startling, unconventional work hanging high in a gothic cathedral, obscure convents and Spanish museums. It ...