
Mannerist master El Greco (1541-1614) fused Byzantine tradition with Venetian color and Spanish mysticism into one of art history's most distinctive styles. Born Doménikos Theotokópoulos in Crete, then a Venetian possession, he trained as an icon painter before traveling to Venice around 1567, where he studied Titian and Tintoretto. After time in Rome, he settled in Toledo, Spain in 1577, finding patrons among the clergy and nobility.
El Greco's mature style features elongated figures, acid colors, and flickering light that express spiritual ecstasy. The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1586-88) at Santo Tomé in Toledo combines earthly grandeur with heavenly vision in a painting that has never left its original location. View of Toledo is among history's most dramatic landscape paintings. Ignored after his death, El Greco was rediscovered by Romantics and influenced Expressionists and Picasso. The Prado in Madrid holds major works, while The Burial remains at Santo Tomé church in Toledo. The Metropolitan Museum displays significant paintings.
19 paintings catalogued with museum locations

El Greco
Frick Collection, New York

El Greco, 1600
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

El Greco
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Bologna, Bologna

El Greco
National Art Gallery (Alexandros Soutzos Museum), Athens, Athens

El Greco
Historical Museum of Crete, Heraclion, Heraklion

El Greco
Private Collection, Unknown

El Greco
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Madrid

El Greco
Private Collection, Unknown

El Greco
National Gallery of Denmark (Statens Museum for Kunst), Copenhagen, Copenhagen

El Greco
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

El Greco
Historical Museum of Crete, Heraclion, Heraklion

El Greco
Holy Cathedral of the Dormition of the Virgin, Ermoupoli, Ermoupoli

El Greco
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis

El Greco
Private Collection, Unknown

El Greco
Private Collection, Unknown

El Greco
Private Collection, Unknown
El Greco, 1600
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Madrid
El Greco, 1580
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Madrid

El Greco, 1614
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
12 museums display Greco's works. Click any museum to see visiting info and the specific works they hold.



Unknown, Unknown
5 works on display

New York, USA
1 work on display

Madrid, Spain
3 works on display

Washington, D.C., United States
1 work on display

Philadelphia, United States
1 work on display

Copenhagen, Denmark
1 work on display

New York, United States
1 work on display

Minneapolis, United States
1 work on display

Bologna, Italy
1 work on display


Heraklion, Greece
2 works on display

Athens, Greece
1 work on display

Ermoupoli, Greece
1 work on display
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