Doménikos Theotokópoulos, better known as El Greco, was an artist born in Greece in 1541. He lived and worked primarily in Spain, where he achieved great success as a painter, sculptor, and architect. El Greco’s unique style of painting featuring exaggerated proportions and bold colors with emotional intensity was not fully appreciated during his lifetime but gained newfound appreciation in the 20th century.
El Greco was deeply spiritual and used his art to express this aspect of himself. He saw painting as much more than creating something that simply looked good. Instead, it was a way to connect with the divine and convey this connection through his art.
One significant period of El Greco’s life saw him making pictures for churches and convents around the Toledan region of Spain. His output during this time is described as prodigious indicating that he had an abundance of creativity pouring out onto canvas. Though recognized for his impact on Spanish Renaissance art, El Greco’s style doesn’t clearly belong to any particular school because it is so uniquely expressive.
Overall, El Greco left behind a legacy that has continued to inspire artists throughout the centuries. His work remains highly respected among critics who praise not only its visual appeal but also its deep sense of spirituality rooted within each brushstroke or sculpture created by him.
All El Greco Artwork on Artchive
| Artwork Name | Year | Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Apostle St. James the Less | c.1612; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Apostle St. John the Evangelist | c.1612; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Apostle St. Matthew | c.1612; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Apostle St. Paul | c.1612; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Apostle St. Peter | c.1612; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Apostle St. Philip | c.1612; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Apostle St. Simon | c.1612; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Apostle St. Thaddeus (Jude) | c.1612; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Apostle St. Thomas | c.1612; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Apparition of the Virgin to St. Lawrence | c.1580; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Joseph and the Christ Child | 1599; Toledo, Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Louis King of France with a Page | c.1590; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Luke | c.1605; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Luke painting the Virgin | 1568; Greece | panel,tempera |
| St. Martin and the Beggar | c.1598; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Mary Magdalene | c.1580; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Peter | c.1613; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Peter and St. Paul | c.1607; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Peter in Penitence | c.1585; Spain | oil,canvas |
| A Prelate | c.1601; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Assumption of the Virgin | 1577; Spain | oil,panel |
| Baptism of Christ | 1568; Italy | oil,canvas |
| Baptism of Christ | 1597 - 1600; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Christ | 1580 - 1585; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Christ as Saviour | c.1612; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Christ blessing (The Saviour of the World) | c.1600; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Christ carrying the cross | c.1595; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Christ carrying the cross | c.1578; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Christ driving the traders from the temple | 1571 - 1576; Italy | oil,panel,canvas |
| St. Sebastian | c.1600; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Sebastian | c.1612; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Study of a Man | c.1595; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Veronica with the Holy Shroud | c.1580; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Adoration of the Name of Jesus | c.1580; Spain | oil,wood,tempera |
| The Agony in the Garden | c.1605; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Agony in the Garden | c.1608; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Baptism | c.1600; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Disrobing of Christ | c.1600; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Christ driving the Traders from the Temple | 1600 | oil,canvas |
| Christ healing the blind | 1578; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Christ healing the blind man | 1560; Greece | oil,panel |
| Christ in Agony on the Cross | c.1605; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Christ in the Olive Garden | c.1600; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Christ on a cross | 1610; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Christ on the cross | 1587; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Christ on the cross adored by two donors | c.1590; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Christ on the cross with two Maries and St. John | 1588; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Concert of Angels | c.1610; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Dream of Philip II | 1579; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Ecstasy of St. Francis of Assisi | c.1600; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Entombment of Christ | c.1568 - c.1570 | oil,panel,tempera,canvas |
| The Holy Family | c.1585; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Holy Family with St. Anne and the Young St. John the Baptist | c.1601; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Last Supper | c.1568; Venice, Italy | oil,panel |
| The Marriage of the Virgin | c.1600; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Nativity | c.1604; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Coronation of the Virgin | c.1604; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Coronation of the Virgin | 1591; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Coronation of the Virgin | 1591; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Deposition in the tomb | c.1575; Italy | oil,canvas |
| Dormition of the Virgin | 1566; Greece | panel,tempera |
| Feast in the House of Simon | c.1610; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Female portrait | c.1595; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Holy Family | 1592; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Holy Family with St. Anne | c.1605; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Julian Romero de las Azanas and his patron St. Julian | c.1590; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Penitent Magdalene | 1578; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Purification of the Temple | 1600; Italy | oil |
| The Repentant Peter | c.1600; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Resurrection | c.1595; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Resurrection | 1596 - 1600; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Virgin and Child with St. Martina and St. Agnes | 1597 - 1599; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception | c.1610; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception | c.1611; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception and St. John | 1585; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Visitation | c.1610; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Lady with a Flower in Her Hair | c.1595; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Madonna of Charity | c.1604; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Marriage at Cana | c.1600; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Martyrdom of St. Maurice and His Legions | 1580 - 1581; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Mary Magdalene in Penitence | c.1577; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Mount Sinai | 1570; Venice, Italy | panel,tempera |
| Saint John the Evangelist | c.1577 | |
| Opening of the fifth seal (The vision of Saint John the Divine) | c.1610; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Penitent Magdalene | c.1590; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Pentecost | c.1596; Spain | oil,canvas |
| View and plan of Toledo | c.1610; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Vincenzo Anastagi | c.1575; Italy | oil,canvas |
| Virgin Mary | c.1600; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Virgin Mary | c.1585; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Pietà | c.1592; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Pietà (The Lamentation of Christ) | 1575; Italy | panel,tempera |
| Poet Ercilla y Zuniga by El Greco | c.1595; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of a Cardinal (Probably Cardinal Don Fernando Niño de Guevara) | c.1598; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of a doctor Rodrigo de la Fuente | c.1580; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of a gentleman from Casa de Leiva | 1580; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of Alonso de Herrera | c.1600; Spain | oil,panel |
| Portrait of a man | c.1580; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of a man | c.1600; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of a man | c.1586; Spain | oil,cardboard |
| Portrait of a man (Andrea Palladio) | 1575; Italy | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of an elder nobleman | c.1585; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of an old man (presumed self-portrait of El Greco) | c.1600; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of a young man | c.1605; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of Cardinal Tavera | c.1610; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of Diego de Covarrubias | c.1602; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of Dominican Friar | c.1605; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Portrait Of Don Rodrigo Vasquez | c.1605; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of Fray Hortensio Felix Paravicino | 1609; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of Giulio Clovio | 1572; Rome, Italy | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of Jeronimo de Cevallos | 1613; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of Juan Alfonso de Pimentel y Herrera | c.1600; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of Pope Pius V | c.1605; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Portrait of the-Artist's son Jorge Manuel Theotokopoulos | c.1603; Toledo, Spain | oil,canvas |
| Resurrection | 1579; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Saint Benedict | 1577 - 1579 | oil,canvas |
| St. Antony of Padua | c.1577; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Bartholomew | c.1614; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Bernardino of Siena | 1604; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Dominic praying | c.1588; Spain | oil,canvas |
| A boy blowing on an ember to light a candle | c.1570; Venice, Italy | oil,canvas |
| Adoration of the Shepherds | c.1596; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Adoration of the Shepherds | c.1570; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Adoration of the Shepherds | c.1610; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Allegory, boy lighting candle in the company of an ape and a fool - Fábula | c.1590; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Francis and brother Leo meditating on death | c.1600; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Francis and Brother Rufus | 1606; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Francis praying | c.1585; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Francis praying | 1595; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Francis receiving the stigmata | c.1578; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Francis receiving the stigmata | c.1590; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Francis receiving the stigmata | c.1571; Venice, Italy | panel,tempera |
| St. Francis receiving the stigmata | c.1590; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St Francis's vision of the flaming torch | c.1605; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Idelfonso | c.1607; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Paul and St. Peter | c.1595; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Burial of the Count of Orgaz | 1587; Spain | oil,canvas |
| The Knight with his hand on his breast | c.1584; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Laocoon | 1608-1614 | Oil On Canvas |
| Allegory of Camaldolese Order | 1599 - 1600; Toledo, Spain | oil,canvas |
| Annunciation | c.1600; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Annunciation | c.1610; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Annunciation | c.1598; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Annunciation | c.1604; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Antonio de Covarrubias | 1594; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Apostles Peter and Paul | 1592; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Apostle St. Andrew | c.1612; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Apostle St. Andrew | c.1610; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Apostle St. James the Greater | 1606; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Idelfonso | c.1613; Spain | oil,canvas |
| Stigmatisation of St. Francis | c.1600; Toledo, Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Jacobus | c.1600; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. James the Less | c.1595; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Jerome | c.1610; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Jerome as Cardinal | c.1595; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Jerome Penitent | c.1614; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. John the Baptist | 1579; Toledo, Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. John the Evangelist | 1579; Toledo, Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. John the Evangelist and St. Francis | c.1608; Spain | oil,canvas |
| St. Sebastian | c.1577 | Oil on Canvas |
| The opening of the Fifth Seal of the Apocalypse | c. 1608-14 | Oil on Canvas |
| The Repentant Peter | c. 1600 | Oil On Canvas |
| Madonna And Child With St. Martina And St. Agnes | 1597-99 | Oil On Canvas |
| The Knight With His Hand On His Breast | Oil On Canvas | |
| St. Louis, King Of France | 1587-97 | Oil On Canvas |
| Julian Romero De Las Azanas And St Julian | 1587-97 | Oil On Canvas |
| St. Jerome, Cardinal | 1587-97 | Oil On Canvas |
| St. Ildefonso | 1603-1607 | Oil On Canvas |
| St. Francis And The Lay Brother | 1597-1603 | Oil On Canvas |
| Portrait Of A Cardinal | c. 1600 | Oil On Canvas |
| St. Martin And The Beggar | 1597-99 | Oil On Canvas |
| Baptism Of Christ | 1597-1600 | Oil On Canvas |
| St. Andrew and St. Francis | 1604 | Oil on Canvas |
| Penance of Mary Magdalene | 1587-97 | Oil on Canvas |
| Pieta | 1587-97 | Oil on Canvas |
| St. Paul | 1608-1614 | Oil on Canvas |
| The Burial of Count Orgasz | 1586 | Oil on Canvas |
| The tears of St. Peter | 1603-1607 | Oil on Canvas |
| Veronica | 1576-79 | Oil on Canvas |
| St. Francis kneeling in meditation | 1587-97 | Oil on Canvas |
| The Holy Trinity | 1577 | Oil on Canvas |
| The spoliation | 1577-1579 | Oil on Canvas |
| Via crucis | 1587-97 | Oil on Canvas |
| Baptism of Christ | c.1608 | Oil on Canvas |
| Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple | 1570 | Oil on Panel |
| St. John the Baptist | c.1600 | Oil on Canvas |
| St. John the Evangelist | c.1604 | Oil on Canvas |
| The Annunciation | 1576 | Tempera on Panel |
| View of Toledo | c.1599 | Oil on Canvas |
