Tucked into a corner of that room is El Greco's "Repentant Saint Peter." Tucked into a corner of that painting is one of the most striking details in this entire museum: a little figure of a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“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.

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.