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On my last visit to Toledo, it seemed holier than ever: Dark El Greco clouds threatened overhead, stark against bright, clear horizons. Hail pelted the masses of people clogging the streets as they ...
For centuries, Spanish Renaissance painter El Greco was a non-entity. No one studied his startling, unconventional work hanging high in a gothic cathedral, obscure convents and Spanish museums. El ...
On my last visit to Toledo, it seemed holier than ever: Dark El Greco clouds threatened overhead, stark against bright, clear horizons. Hail pelted the masses of people clogging the streets as they ...
THE word labyrinthine could have been invented to describe the streets and alleys of Toledo. The main thoroughfares, often just narrow cobbled laneways, twist and turn and fork in two, one way going ...
El Greco’s famous landscape ‘View of Toledo’ celebrates his adopted city and the sky above it El Greco’s real name was Domenikos Theotokopoulos. He was born in Crete (“el Greco” is Spanish for “the ...
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The painter has been hailed as ‘the spirit of Spain’, but a closer look at his work reveals other influences One Sunday in May this year, 52 residents voted to change the name of their village near ...