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Exhibition Review
El Greco: Santo Domingo el Antiguo
06/2025 | 1467 | 167
Pages: 600–604
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Reviewer:
Kientz, Guillaume (Kientz, Guillaume)
Subjects
artists:
El Greco
buildings:
Santo Domingo el Antiguo, Toledo, Spain
subjects:
Paintings / Altarpieces
Reviewed Items
subjects:
El Greco: Santo Domingo el Antiguo Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid 18th February–15th June | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Installation view of El Greco: Santo Domingo el Antiguo at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2025, showing the Assumption, by El Greco. 1577–79. Oil on canvas, 403.2 by 211.8 cm. (Courtesy Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Attributed works:
17. Holy Trinity, by El Greco. 1577–79. Oil on canvas, 300 by 179 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Attributed works:
18. Study for a Holy Trinity, attributed to El Greco. 1576–77. Pen, brown ink, brown wash and bodycolour heightened with white on paper, 24.5 by 19.5 cm. (Hispanic Society Museum & Library, New York).
Exhibition Review
El Greco: Un Pittore Nel Labirinto
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 190–193
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Reviewer:
Markou, Georgios E. (Markou, Georgios E.)
Subjects
artists:
El Greco
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Reviewed Items
museums and institutions:
El Greco: Un Pittore Nel Labirinto Palazzo Reale, Milan 11th October 2023–11th February 2024 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
14. St Martin and the beggar, by El Greco. c.1597–99. Oil on canvas, 194 by 103 cm. (National Gallery of Art Washington; exh. Palazzo Reale, Milan).
Attributed works:
15. Laocoön, by El Greco. c.1610–14. Oil on canvas, 137 by 172 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington; exh. Palazzo Reale, Milan).
Attributed works:
16. St Francis of Assisi and Brother Leo meditating on death, by El Greco and workshop. c.1600–05. Oil on canvas, 160.5 by 103 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; exh. Palazzo Reale, Milan).
Exhibition Review
Picasso–El Greco
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 1008-1011
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Reviewer:
Cowling, Elizabeth (Cowling, Elizabeth)
Subjects
artists:
Picasso, Pablo / El Greco
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
subjects:
Spanish art / Spanish artists / Influence
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Picasso–El Greco Kunstmuseum Basel 11th June–25th September | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Penitent Magdalene, by El Greco. c.1580– 85. Oil on canvas, 101.6 by 81.9 cm. (Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; exh. Kunstmuseum
Attributed works:
2. Nu assis, by Pablo Picasso. 1909–10. Oil on canvas, 92.1 by 73 cm. (© Succession Picasso; ProLitteris, Zurich; Tate, London; exh. Kunstmuseum Basel).
Attributed works:
3. Le couple, by Pablo Picasso. 1967. Oil on canvas, 195 by 130 cm. (© Succession Picasso; ProLitteris, Zurich; Kunstmuseum Basel; photograph Martin P. Bühler).
Obituary
Obituary: Jonathan Brown (1939–2022)
04/2022 | 1429 | 164
Pages: 427-428
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Author:
Cherry, Peter (Cherry, Peter)
Subjects
art literature:
Brown, Jonathan
artists:
El Greco / Ribera, Jusepe de / Zurbarán, Francisco de / Velázquez, Diego / Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban / Goya, Francisco Javier de / Picasso, Pablo
subjects:
Spanish painting / scholars
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Jonathan Brown, photographed in c.2010. (Photograph N.L. Roberts).
Article
The Spanish Gallery, Bishop Auckland
03/2022 | 1428 | 164
Pages: 276-283
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Author:
Kent, Isabelle (Kent, Isabelle )
Subjects
artists:
Zurbarán, Francisco de / El Greco / Velázquez, Diego / Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban / Giordano, Luca / Sánchez Coello, Alonso / Maíno, Juan Bautista / Valdés Leal, Juan de
museums and institutions:
Spanish Gallery, Bishop Auckland, Great Britain / Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham, Great Britain
patrons:
Ruffer, Jonathan
subjects:
Art galleries / Spanish art / FACTUM ARTE
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The Copatronazgo, by Juan Bautista Maíno. c.1627. Oil on canvas, 145 by 103 cm. (Courtesy Jonathan Ruffer).
Attributed works:
10. The Cardinal Tavera Room, The Spanish Gallery, Bishop Auckland. (Photograph © James Morris for Factum Foundation).
Attributed works:
2. The Long Dining Room at Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, with Jacob and his twelve sons, by Francisco de Zurbarán. (Photograph House of Hues).
Attributed works:
3. The ‘Cabbages and Kings’ Room, The Spanish Gallery, Bishop Auckland. (Photograph House of Hues).
Attributed works:
4. Benjamin, by Francisco de Zurbarán. Oil on canvas, 199.2 by 103 cm. (The Grimsthorpe and Drummond Castle Trust; © Grimsthorpe and Drummond Castle Trust; photograph Robert LaPrelle).
Attributed works:
5. The ‘Eternal Devotion’ Room, The Spanish Gallery, Bishop Auckland. (Photograph House of Hues).
Attributed works:
6. Cardinal Astalli Pamphili, by Diego Velázquez. 1650–51. Oil on canvas, 61 by 48.5 cm. (Hispanic Society of America, New York).
Attributed works:
7. St Ferdinand, by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. c.1671. Oil on canvas, 170 by 114 cm. (The Zurbarán Trust).
Attributed works:
8. Christ on the Cross, by Doménikos Theotokópoulos, known as El Greco. c.1600–10. Oil on canvas, 179.4 by 103.5 cm. (The Zurbarán Trust).
Attributed works:
9. The Casa de Pilatos Room, The Spanish Gallery, Bishop Auckland. (Photograph © James Morris for Factum Foundation).
Letter
El Greco’s ‘Visitation’ in the Dumbarton Oaks Museum
03/2021 | 1416 | 163
Pages: 220-221
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Author:
Rodríguez Ortega, Nuria (Rodríguez Ortega, Nuria)
Subjects
art literature:
Waterhouse, Ellis K.
artists:
El Greco
museums and institutions:
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, United States
subjects:
Catalogues raisonnés / Provenance
works:
Mary, Virgin: Visitation
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Letter from Jere Abbot to E.K. Waterhouse incorporating a sketch of ‘The Visitation’ by El Greco, 10th July 1931. (Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections, Ellis K. Waterhouse Notebooks and Research Files).
Attributed works:
2. The Visitation, by El Greco. c.1610–14. Oil on canvas, 96.5 by 71.4 cm. (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington).
Article
E.K. Waterhouse’s unpublished El Greco catalogue raisonné
12/2020 | 1413 | 162
Pages: 1038-1047
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Author:
Rodríguez Ortega, Nuria (Rodríguez Ortega, Nuria)
Subjects
art literature:
Waterhouse, Ellis K. / Wethey, Harold E. / Cossio, Manuel B. / Mayer, August L.
artists:
El Greco
museums and institutions:
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, United States
subjects:
Catalogues raisonnés / Research / Papers / Spanish art / Attributions / Art market / Provenance / Dating / scholars / Art historiography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. St Jerome, by El Greco. 1590–1600. Oil on canvas, 110.5 by 95.3 cm. (Frick Collection, New York).
Attributed works:
2. E.K Waterhouse, by Annan. 1949. Bromide print, 207 by 15.4 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
3. The disrobing of Christ, by the school of El Greco. Early seventeenth century. Oil on canvas, 74.9 by 44.5 cm. (The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia).
Attributed works:
4. The Agony in the garden, by the school of El Greco. 1590s. Oil on canvas, 102 by 131 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
5. The Agony in the garden, by El Greco. c.1610–12. Oil on canvas, 170 by 112.5 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest).
Attributed works:
6. The purification of the Temple, by El Greco. c.1600. Oil on canvas, 41.9 by 52.4 cm. (Frick Collection, New York).
Attributed works:
7. Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist, by the workshop of El Greco. c.1600–10. Oil on canvas, 59.4 by 98.4 cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
8. The concert of angels, by El Greco. c.1608–14. Oil on canvas, 115 by 217 cm. (National Gallery Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens).
Attributed works:
9. The Visitation, by El Greco. c.1610–14. Oil on canvas, 96.5 by 71.4 cm. (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington).
Book Review
The Pictorial Art of El Greco: Transmaterialities, Temporalities, and Media. By Livia Stoenescu
05/2020 | 1406 | 162
Pages: 458
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Reviewer:
Riello, José (Riello, José)
Subjects
artists:
El Greco
subjects:
Spanish art / Religious art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Pictorial Art of El Greco: Transmaterialities, Temporalities, and Media By Livia Stoenescu. 324 pp. incl. 102 col. + 8 b. & w. ills. (Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2019),  99. ISBN 978–94–6298–900–9. | :
Exhibition Review
Greco. Grand Palais, Paris
02/2020 | 1403 | 162
Pages: 144-145
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Reviewer:
Marías, Fernando (Marías, Fernando)
Subjects
artists:
El Greco
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Grand Palais, Paris, France
places:
France
styles:
Mannerism
subjects:
Religious art / French art / Art historiography
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Greco Grand Palais, Paris 16th October 2019–10th February | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Resurrected Christ, by El Greco. 1595–98. Polychrome wood, 47 by 12.5 by 24 cm. (Private collection; exh. Grand Palais, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Titian and the Renaissance in Venice
05/2019 | 1394 | 161
Pages: 419-422
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Reviewer:
Humfrey, Peter (Humfrey, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Titian / Bellini, Giovanni / Carpaccio, Vittore / Tintoretto, Jacopo / Veronese, Paolo / Bassano, Jacopo, il vecchio, 1510-1592 / Campagnola, Domenico / Campagnola, Giulio / Ugo da Carpi / Salviati, Francesco / El Greco / Palma, Jacopo, il vecchio, ca. 1479-1528
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
styles:
Venetian School
subjects:
Italian art / Renaissance art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
11. Study of St Sebastian, by Titian. c.1520. Pen and ink with brown wash and white heightening on blue-grey paper, 18.2 by 11.5 cm (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
Attributed works:
12. Two nymphs in a landscape, by Palma Vecchio. c.1510–15. Panel, 98.3 by 152.4 cm. (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
Attributed works:
13. Alvise dalla Scala, by Titian. c.1562. Canvas, 138 by 116 cm (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden; exh. Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
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