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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago
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
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Saint John the Evangelist and an Angel, 1600
Christ on the Cross, 1600
Kress Foundation Collection NEW!
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
St. Francis Venerating the Crucifix, ca.1595
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
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
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
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
St. Francis and Brother Leo Meditating on Death
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
El Greco at the Prado Museum, Madrid
31 works online
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain NEW!
Saint Francis Praying before the Crucified Christ
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain NEW!
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. NEW!
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
Purification of the Temple, ca.1600
St. Jerome, 1590-1600
Vincenzo Anastagi, 1571-76
Galleria Borghese, Rome
Nativitą e Battesimo di Gesł
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
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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
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) NEW!
San Juan Bautista
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museo Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy (in Italian) NEW!
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 NEW!
Head of Saint Francis, 1590s
Museum of the Hispanic Society of America, New York City NEW!
5 works online
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
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
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
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Fabula, 1585-90
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE) NEW!
Pictures from Image Archives:
El Greco in the Art Renewal Center
Artchive
CGFA
The Athenaeum 
Numerous works online by Greco
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
Olga's Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site NEW!
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 119
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
The Modernist Journals Project
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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
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 (now part of the New York Times organization)
"El Greco: The Master and the Myth," article by Roderick Conway Morris
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
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
"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.
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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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