Toledo, Spain, is a beautiful city as well as a popular tourist destination, and travel guru Rick Steves has a pertinent tip ...

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

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.

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.

The conventual church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo, Spain, played a crucial role in the life and work of Doménikos Theotokópoulos, better known as El Greco. It was there that the ...

This painting was done for the church of Santo Tomé in Toledo and most of El Greco’s major works were painted for institutions in and around the city—the church of the Talavera la Vieja (1591-92), the ...

The Toledo Museum of Art has been named 'Best Art Museum' by USA Today for the year 2025. ... El Greco and Claude Monet all have paintings displayed throughout the museum, ...

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.

In the 1870s and ’80s, when French Impressionists like Manet, Monet, Pissarro and Sisley were experimenting on new methods of painting light and color, travelers began to notice El Greco again.

Art: EL GRECO’S LAST GLORIA. 3 minute read. TIME. December 17, 1956 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... For El Greco. Toledo was an ideal city. Saint Theresa and St. John of the Cross were fellow citizens, ...

El Greco, A View of Toledo. c a. 1598-99, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Everyone knows the name “El Greco.”He is one of those rare Old Masters who, like his seventeenth-century Netherlandish ...