In Spain, about a million people have participated in the annual pilgrimage honoring the Rocío Virgin, a Catholic icon of the ...

Different icons, common prayers How Mary is represented, however, varies greatly across time and places, Harris added. There are "Black" Virgin Marys -- dark-skinned paintings and statues like ...

Toledo's Santa Cruz Museum holds a superb collection of El Greco paintings, including the impressive altarpiece Assumption of Mary. Finished one year before El Greco's death, it's the culmination ...

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 ...

However, while painting these works, El Greco was paid less than what he had been hoping ... a sky filled with black and white and starkly-colored images of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, St. John, and other ...

Toledo’s Santa Cruz Museum holds a superb collection of El Greco paintings, including the impressive altarpiece Assumption of Mary. Finished one year before El Greco’s death, it’s the ...

Toledo’s Santa Cruz Museum holds a superb collection of El Greco paintings, including the impressive altarpiece Assumption of Mary. Finished one year before El Greco’s death, it’s the ...

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 ...

Upon entering the central gallery of the Prado Museum, visitors are greeted by El Greco’s The Assumption of the Virgin. It’s a monumental painting, which still looks ... of paint that depict the ...

El Greco and Mary Magdalene have something in common: they do not stand still. The artist’s brushstrokes impart being, movement, and life to every least blade of grass, while the saint is always ...

This painting is credited to El Greco, done in 1575, and on display at Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. (Wikimedia Commons) The Annunciation holds a profound place in Christian theology, marking the ...