For the first time, a comprehensive
exhibition of El Greco's oeuvre is on show in Budapest, at the Museum
of Fine Arts from the end of October. The aim of the exhibition is to
provide a broad overview of the oeuvre of one of the most outstanding masters
in the history of European art, the Spanish-Cretan El Greco, or Domḗnikos
Theotokópoulos, showing the painter's full formal complexity and his
great stylistic development in an exhibition of almost seventy works.
This major show will bring to
Budapest outstanding works such as Saint Sebastian from the
Cathedral of Palencia, The Baptism of Christ from the Prado in
Madrid, St Louis, King of France, with a Page from the Louvre in
Paris, Christ driving the Traders from the Temple from the
National Gallery in London, and the altarpiece of The Resurrection
borrowed from the Monastery of Saint Dominic of Silos (the Old) in Toledo,
which had never left the city before.
