Room 85

El Greco

1541–1614, Crete, Venice, Rome and Toledo (Spain), Mannerism

Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known as El Greco (“the Greek”), started out as an icon painter on Crete, studied Titian’s colours in Venice and found his very own style in Toledo: elongated figures, flickering light and cool, glowing colours. His “Laocoön”, his only painting on a subject from ancient mythology, shows not Troy in the background but Toledo.

All works

• Saint Ildefonso
• Saint Martin and the Beggar
• Laocoön
• Saint Jerome
• The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Infant John the Baptist
• Christ Cleansing the Temple
• Madonna and Child with Saint Martina and Saint Agnes
• Saint Martin and the Beggar