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  1. 400 Years After Death, El Greco Receives Celebration He Sought - Tourists take photos and listen to an audio tour in front of El Greco's 'The Disrobing of Christ' inside Toledo's cathed

    by , 11-12-2014 at 12:29 AM


    At a small exhibit at the Historical Museum of Crete, a visiting artist gazes at an early religious painting by El Greco.
    "The Baptism of Christ" is a vividly colored, two-dimensional, egg tempera-on-panel work from the second half of the 16th century. But it already showed hints of the style that would later make him one of the Western world's most famous ...