El Greco: Still Inspiring, 400 Years Later
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Carol Vogel
NEW YORK---To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of El Greco in Spain (he was born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Greece) the Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) and the Frick Collection (1 East 70th Street, Manhattan; frick.org) will be holding special exhibitions of his paintings from Tuesday through Feb. 1. Between the two institutions, the city will have the largest showing of El Greco’s paintings outside the Prado in Madrid. [link]
By Carol Vogel
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| El Greco in New York: His “St. Jerome” and “View of Toledo.” Credit Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection; Metropolitan Museum of Art, H. O. Havemeyer Collection |
