Like El Greco. Or Van Gogh. The style and color palette (blue/gold) of this painting is strictly Van Gogh’s, including his use of lines to construct the scene (including the sower).

El Greco's "Holy Family" (1585) shows the infant Jesus nursing. "Supper in the House of Simon" (1615-'25) is a convivial meal, disciples packed closely together — and there are even women here.

The museum, which has had an excellent slate or more modern exhibitions of late, brings "The Brilliance of the Spanish World: El Greco, Velázquez, Zurbarán" to the Baker/Rowland Galleries, May 2 ...

by Rick Steves, April 22, 2025 | Toledo, which can be enjoyed as a day trip from Madrid, offers most stunning (and Gothic) cathedrals in Spain, plus plenty of El Greco art.

High points include Diego Velázquez’s “Kitchen Maid With the Supper at Emmaus” (c. 1617-18), in a section devoted to sharing food; and El Greco’s towering, 9-foot-tall oil painting ...

El Greco’s “Portrait of an Old Man,” believed to be a self-portrait, 1595. Credit: Public Domain The Greek painter El Greco (October 1, 1541 – April 7, 1614) is one of the best known artists in the ...

Toledo was once home to Europe’s most powerful king, Charles V, and is papered with the vividly spiritual paintings of the city’s most famous artist, El Greco.

El Greco was first documented in Spain in June 1577 and quickly received the commission for the new monastery, which was designed and jointly paid for by a powerful dean of the cathedral named ...

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 in total, ends with another painting from ...

Left: El Greco, “The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian” (1577–78), oil on canvas, 75 1/10 x 59 4/5 inches (191 x 152 cm) (image via Wikimedia Commons); right: Sandro Botticelli, “Saint ...

El Greco and Mary Magdalene have something in common: they do not stand still. The artist’s brushstrokes impart being, movement, and life to every least blade of grass, while the saint is always ...