Nine monumental paintings by El Greco once decorated monastery walls in Toledo, Spain, where the Greek-born artist spent most ...
Toledo's Santa Cruz Museum holds a superb collection of El Greco paintings, including the impressive altarpiece Assumption of Mary. Finished one year before El Greco's death, it’s the ...
In The Assumption, the Virgin Mary ascends to heaven on a crescent ... that visually connects above it. For it, El Greco used works by Michelangelo and Albrecht Durer as references.