Tenderness, Penitence and Estrangement: I Review the El Greco Show at the National Gallery of Art

Tenderness, Penitence and Estrangement: I Review the El Greco Show at the National Gallery of Art December 12, 2014

for the Weekly Standard:

The nickname “El Greco” reveals two things about Doménikos Theotokópoulos, the weird and sublime painter of the Counter-Reformation: He was Greek, and he was a stranger. When everybody around you is Greek, nobody is “the Greek.” El Greco’s vision reflected the second part of his identity even more than the first.

more


Browse Our Archives

Follow Us!