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. El ...

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Painter’s vivid works have returned from around the world to adorn his adoptive city Toledo: The Spanish city of Toledo on Friday welcomed back the master painter El Greco, whose vivid works have ...

El Greco’s famous landscape ‘View of Toledo’ celebrates his adopted city and the sky above it El Greco’s real name was Domenikos Theotokopoulos. He was born in Crete (“el Greco” is Spanish for “the ...

TOWARD the end of the 16th century a strange, aloof figure — came to the Spanish hilltop town of Toledo. His origins were obscure, and his name—Domenikos Theotokopoulos—was so difficult that he was ...

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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 ...