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 ...
Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...
The Romanian government has long sought dozens of valuable paintings that it says the country’s last king took into exile in ...
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 ...
According to the Bible, this happened when Jesus entered Jerusalem for the last time before his crucifixion, signifying a symbolic cleansing of the 'house of God' right before his own sacrifice.
El Greco's Saint Sebastian (ca. 1610–14) has been pulled from auction at Christie's after intervention from the Romanian ...