In the last two years of his life, El Greco painted a nocturnal Nativity to adorn the chapel that the Cistercian nuns had granted him as a family tomb. That work, “The Adoration of the Shepherds ...

El Greco: "The Holy Family with Saint Mary Magdalen," 1590-1595, oil on canvas, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Friends of the Cleveland Museum of Art in memory of J.H. Wade. With a squirming ...

A skull and an hourglass underline the memento mori here. El Greco's "Holy Family" (1585) shows the infant Jesus nursing. "Supper in the House of Simon" (1615-'25) is a convivial meal, disciples ...

Domenikos Theotokopoulos, better known as 'El Greco', was born in 1541 in Crete, into a wealthy family. He began his career as an 'icon painter', and by 1563, he was described as a 'master'.

better known as El Greco. It was there that the painter received his first major Spanish commission, a complex series of altarpiece paintings. Thirty-seven years later, he was buried there ...