TOLEDO, Spain (Reuters) - 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 ...

Domenikos Theotokopoulos, roughly a contemporary of Shakespeare, died 400 years ago. The anniversary has prompted museums around the United States, including the Legion of Honor, to display the work ...

While museums around the globe are closed to the public, we are spotlighting each day an inspiring exhibition that was previously on view. Even if you can’t see it in person, allow us to give you a ...

ATHENS, Greece — A 17th-century El Greco painting that recently was purchased by a foundation set up under the will of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis went on display at the National Art ...

Detail from Christ Carrying the Cross, a work newly attributed to Greek painter El Greco Courtesy of CAEM Known for his elongated renderings of the human body and innovative use of color, El Greco is ...

Imagine spending a year – or more – restoring an artwork, trying to bring back the touch, or the brushstroke, of a master. That’s what Scott Heffley, senior conservator of paintings at the ...

How did El Greco move from painting icons on the island of Crete to the elongated, expressionist works that made him famous and influenced artists like Pablo Picasso and Paul Cézanne? To mark the ...

Police in Spain have intercepted three forged paintings attributed to El Greco, Francisco de Goya, and Amedeo Modigliani. The counterfeit canvases came from a non-specialist collector based in the ...