The fate of El Greco's Saint Sebastian is in limbo as Romania escalates its legal battle to reclaim the masterpiece, alleging ...

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 ...

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.

They spotted something very modern in his work, some 300 years before Abstract Expressionism. Now El Greco has become one of the West's most popular painters. If the artist only knew, Sanchez says.

An art restorer in 1880 decided El Greco’s ‘The Vision of Saint John’ needed an improvement and—snip—excised a large portion of the masterpiece and tossed it in the trash.

An outstanding National Gallery exhibition shows how El Greco's style evolved, ignoring the classical rules of balance, proportion and harmonious colours - all to ravishing effect. By Richard ...

El Greco – or Domenikos Theotokopoulos, as he was born – was born in 1541 in Crete, which was then a colony of the Most Serene Republic of Venice, the reigning bosses of the Mediterranean.

The German Expressionist painter Franz Marc seems to have initiated this line of thought by announcing in The Blue Rider Almanac in 1912 that “Cézanne and El Greco are spiritual brothers ...

This year is the 400th anniversary of El Greco’s death but his works can feel shockingly modern. Jason Farago examines how his works influenced Manet, Cézanne, Picasso and Pollock. Few artists ...