El Greco's "Holy Family" (1585 ... is an enconchado, an oil painting inlaid with pieces of nácar, or mother of pearl, to give it a glowing effect.

reminded me of oil painting — new strokes over old, making the canvas deeper, richer and more colorful. If you’ve seen El Greco’s dramatically distorted figures and vibrant colors ...

In 2014, Greece celebrated “The Year of El Greco,” in commemoration, 400 years after his death, of its brilliant, visionary master of oil painting. Many of his important works can be seen today in ...

Two portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger flanked an El Greco above the fireplace ... the founder of Standard Oil. They all built up remarkable art collections, much of which is on public view.

David Zwirner has announced When Found becomes Given, an exhibition of paintings by Rose Wylie at the gallery’s location in London. This presentation includes new and recent canvases and multipanel ...

The Romanian government is suing Christie’s auction house and a Russian billionaire to halt the sale of a painting by El Greco that it claims was stolen by the last king of Romania over 70 years ...

The Adoration of the Shepherds, by El Greco. Oil on canvas, 210 x 128 cm. Painted between 1577 and 1579. Botín Foundation Collection.MUSEO DEL PRADO This small exhibition, made up of nine large works ...

Pictured, El Greco’s The Assumption in the display at the Prado Museum (oil on canvas; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago; gift of Nancy Atwood Sprague) At the Prado Museum reunited, for the first ...

In the painting, the artist’s serpent device is ... the Queen of Lydia. Saint Sebastian by El Greco Courtesy Christie's The would-be star of the sale—and possibly the whole Old Masters week ...

Fabián Cháirez, the artist behind a controversial 2019 painting ... Teresa,” Fra Angelico’s “The Annunciation” and El Greco’s “The Immaculate Conception.” Cháirez originally ...

The Diatopos Contemporary Art Centre, in collaboration with the El Greco Gallery in Limassol, presents a new exhibition by Paris Sergiou titled El Greco Meets Paris, opening on Saturday.

I started taking art classes at the San Antonio Art Institute ... On (another) wall is a hauntingly beautiful Christ’s head ...