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El Greco Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Saints Peter and Paul, 1587-92
Portrait of the Poet Alonso Ercilla y Zuniga, 1576-78
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Saint John the Evangelist and an Angel, 1600
Christ on the Cross, 1600
Kress Foundation Collection
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
St. Francis Venerating the Crucifix, ca.1595
El Greco at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Christ on the Cross Adored by Donors
El Greco at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Saint Louis, King of France, and a Page
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
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, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 
St. Francis and Brother Leo Meditating on Death
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
Saint Francis Praying before the Crucified Christ
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
The Annunciation
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
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.
The Visitation
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 NEW!
Purification of the Temple
St. Jerome
Vincenzo Anastagi
Galleria Borghese, Rome
Natività e Battesimo di Gesù
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Saint Francis in Prayer, ca.1582
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Lázaro Galdiano Foundation Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Saint Francis Kneeling in Meditation, 1605-10
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple, ca.1571-76
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Spain (in Spanish)
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
Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Museum of the Hispanic Society of America, New York City
Head of Saint Francis, 1590s
Museum of the Hispanic Society of America, New York City
5 works online
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Portrait of a cardinal
National Museum of Art of Romania
3 paintings by El Greco
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Christ on the Cross
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
(Click the "European 1000-1900" category, then see the work in the first row of thumbnails)
Virtual Uffizi
Saint John the Evangelist and Francis
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
The Repentant Magdalen, ca.1577
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
An Allegory (Fàbula), 1585-90
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
El Greco
Website about El Greco and his paintings
El Greco at The Art Renewal Center
El Greco at The Artchive
El Greco at The Athenaeum 
Numerous works online by Greco
El Greco in the Web Gallery of Art
El Greco in the WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
California State University WorldImages Database
El Greco at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Google Art Project
St's Peter and Paul (The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)
Google Art Project
View of Toledo (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Google Art Project
The Annunciation (Museo Thyssen - Bornemisza, Madrid)
Humanities Web
Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
Olga's Gallery
Rasiel's Wallpapers
(Click on the size of the scan you wish to view)
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
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 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
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
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
View of Toledo
Artnet Magazine
Saint Francis Standing in Meditation
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"El Greco: The Master and the Myth," article by Roderick Conway Morris
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Revelations", 2004 review by Adrian Searle
The London Evening Standard
"A giant among pygmies", 2004 article by Brian Sewell
The New York Observer
"El Greco, Modern Augurer, Stirred Mobs to Battle", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer
"Shock of the Old: El Greco Now Seen As First Modernist", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker
"El Greco retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art", 2003 review by Peter Schjeldahl
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
Luc Tuymans on The Burial of the Count of Orgaz by El Greco
The Village Voice
"Visionary Logic", 2003 article by Jerry Saltz
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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El Greco
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El Greco: The Burial of Count Orgaz
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El Greco in Toledo
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