Bailey sees in that aspect of El Greco’s art part of its appeal to modern eyes. “In some ways the 20th century responded to him as a visionary expressionist,” Bailey said.

“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 ...

Five years after El Greco’s death at 73, his body was moved from Santo Domingo to another church, and then all trace of it was lost. In time the currents of taste turned against El Greco.

“El Greco: Ambition and Defiance” will be the first show anywhere devoted to the famed artist in 15 years, and the first major old-master exhibition at the Art Institute of any kind since an ...

El Greco, A Boy Blowing on an Ember to Light a Candle (El Soplón) (ca. 1570). Installation view of “El Greco: Ambition and Defiance,” 2020. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.

This summer, "El Greco and Modern Painting," also at the Prado (from June 24 through Oct. 5), will chart the painter's rediscovery in the 19th century and his influence on vanguard artists from ...

Bringing Out El Greco On Tuesday, three museums in New York City—including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hispanic Society of America, and the Frick Collection—will bring out El Greco ...

Few artists prove that as solidly as El Greco, an artist in time and out of sync at once. If you would like to comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Culture, head over to our ...