Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database 3 works by El Greco online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco St. Francis Venerating the Crucifix, ca.1595 St. John the Baptist, ca.1600 St. Peter, ca.1605-10
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia Saints Peter and Paul, 1587-92 Portrait of the Poet Alonso Ercilla y Zuniga, 1576-78
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Saint John the Evangelist and an Angel, 1600 Christ on the Cross, 1600
El Greco at the Louvre Museum, Paris Saint Louis, King of France, and a Page, 1590-97
El Greco at the Louvre Museum, Paris Christ on the Cross Adored by Donors, ca.1590
El Greco in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
El Greco at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  Paintings from the museums collection - not all are reproduced in color
El Greco at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  11 paintings from a 2003 exhibition of the artist's work
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple, ca.1571-76
Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, Seville, Spain (in Spanish)  (Click on "ampliar imagen" for a huge enlargement of the image) Retrato de Jorge Manuel
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  (Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images) The Repentant St. Peter
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 3 works online
El Greco at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 8 works by El Greco
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario St. Francis and Brother Leo Meditating on Death
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW! Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch) 
Art Fund for UK Museums Fabula, 1585-90
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain The Annunciation, ca.1596-1600
Boughton House, Northamptonshire, UK The Adoration of the Shepherds
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK The Tears of St. Peter
Chi-Mei Museum, Taiwan (in Chinese)  Saint Martin et le mendicant
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio The Holy Family with Mary Magdalen Christ on the Cross
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich (Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge) The Birth of the Virgin, ca.1590-95
Frick Collection, New York City Purification of the Temple, ca.1600 St. Jerome, 1590-1600 Vincenzo Anastagi, 1571-76
Galleria Borghese, Rome Nativitą e Battesimo di Gesł
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska You must type "greco" into the top left search box and click the "GO" button
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Portrait of Dr. Francisco de Pisa
Lázaro Galdiano Foundation Museum, Madrid (in Spanish) 
El Greco in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Saint Francis Kneeling in Meditation, 1605-10
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Spain (in Spanish) NEW!  San Juan Bautista
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish) 
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese) 
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Saint Peter and Saint Paul
National Gallery of Prague Head of Christ
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum of Art of Romania NEW! 3 paintings by El Greco
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image) 2 works by El Greco online
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (in Italian)  Ultima Cena
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida The Crucifixion with Mary and Saint John, ca.1603/05
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri St. Paul, 1598-1600
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Collection
San Diego Museum of Art, California The Penitent Saint Peter
San Diego Museum of Art, California Requires Flash: Click on "Artist Index", then on "G"
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW! - to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version" - images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image - you can zoom in via the mouse scroll wheel, then click the image and drag it around
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio The Agony in the Garden (requires Flash 5; mouseover thumbnails to see artworks)
Virtual Uffizi
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) 
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts The Repentant Magdalen, ca.1577
Professional Tools:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures Scroll down to signature 119
Pictures from Image Archives:
El Greco in the Art Renewal Center
Artchive 
Artonline
CGFA 
Web Gallery of Art 
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artyzm
California State University WorldImages Database 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
Humanities Web 
ImageNETion
Olga's Gallery
The Athenaeum  2 works online by Greco
Other Web Sites:
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
The Modernist Journals Project
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on El Greco Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
Artnet Magazine Saint Francis Standing in Meditation
International Herald Tribune "El Greco: The Master and the Myth," article by Roderick Conway Morris
The New York Observer Article by Hilton Kramer: El Greco, Modern Augurer, Stirred Mobs to Battle
The New York Observer Article by Hilton Kramer: Shock of the Old: El Greco Now Seen As First Modernist
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK Luc Tuymans on The Burial of the Count of Orgaz by El Greco
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