On view through February 16, 2015, El Greco in the National Gallery of Art and Washington-Area Collections: A 400th Anniversary Celebration National Gallery of Art El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), Laocoön , c. 1610/1614 oil on canvas Samuel H. Kress Collection The 400th anniversary of El Greco's death will be remembered at the National Gallery of Art with an exhibition of 11 paintings from the Gallery, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, and from the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore. On view through February 16, 2015, El Greco in the National Gallery of Art and Washington-Area Collections: A 400th Anniversary Celebration includes some of the artist's most beloved paintings, renowned for compositions of bold colors and subjects with dramatic expression. "This exhibition showcases the artist's groundbreaking style of painting that fused elements of Byzantine and Renaissance art with the heightened spirituality of the Count...
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