Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition to Celebrate 400th Anniversary of the Death of El Greco
ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
NEW YORK---To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos, 1541–1614), this special collaboration will bring together all of the artist’s paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection, the finest outside the Museo del Prado in Madrid, and display them with six loans from the Hispanic Society of America. During the same period, New York’s Frick Collection, whose works by this artist cannot be lent, will exhibit its three El Greco pictures together for the first time.
Metropolitan Museum of Art: "El Greco in New York" (November 4-February 1, 2015); 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street), New York, NY; (212) 535-7710; met museum.org
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| The Vision of Saint John" by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (Greek, Iráklion (Candia) 1540/41–1614 Toledo) |
Metropolitan Museum of Art: "El Greco in New York" (November 4-February 1, 2015); 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street), New York, NY; (212) 535-7710; met museum.org
