From Crete to Toledo: Mysterious Art of El Greco

Domenicos Theotokopolos, better known as El Greco, is often seen as an artist out of his correct place and time. At first glance his dramatic, expressionistic paintings with their sinuous figures seem more at home in a modern art museum than among other Old Masters. In this lecture Isabelle Kent will explore how his distinctive style came to be, and how it was received by his intrigued, and sometimes bemused, contemporaries - from his early years painting Byzantine icons in Crete to his studies in Venice and Rome, and finally his decades among the medieval splendour and humanist thought of Toledo.