A bejeweled icon, or encolpion, worn by Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem and all Palestine, venerates the Virgin Mary and the ... the onslaught of Greco-Roman culture molding ...
The Romanian government has long sought dozens of valuable paintings that it says the country’s last king took into exile in ...
Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...
Christie's has halted the planned auction of a major El Greco painting in response to statements from Romanian officials.
Just one day before its Old Masters sale in New York, Christie’s pulled the auction's top lot, El Greco’s Saint Sebastian (around 1610-1614), estimated between $7m to $9m, after the Romanian ...
MILWAUKEE, WI—February 4, 2025—Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces from the most significant collection of Hispanic art ...
a symbol of her rejection of material goods and repentance following the crucifixion. Other famous depictions of the “Penitent Magdalene,” as Mary Magdalene at this phase of her life is ...
El Greco's Saint Sebastian (ca. 1610–14) has been pulled from auction at Christie's after intervention from the Romanian ...
In the niche that is part of the altarpiece above the altar, an image of the Virgin Mary can be seen although without a doubt ...