El Greco’s divine painting of Saint Martin has the power, and the legs, to transcend the everyday The legs, both human and equine, are what animate this picture by the great El Greco. Lined up in the ...
Before he became “El Greco,” the renowned Old Master admired by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne and Eugène Delacroix was simply Doménikos Theotokópoulos (1541–1614), an icon painter from ...
“View of Toledo” (about 1598—99) by El Greco. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929./Art Institute of Chicago) Perspective by ...