Monthly Archives: Jun 2025

While El Greco is best known for his intense and spiritual religious paintings, he was also a perceptive and powerful portraitist. A skill we can observe in this portrait of Fray Paravicino, a close friend of the artist, who was an important theologian, orator, and poet.  Limiting the colors almost entirely to the black andContinue reading “Fray Paravicino”

On the occasion of the commemoration of the death of Luis Tristán, the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla has undertaken the restoration of this work, considered one of Tristán’s most important Marian representations, a model that was repeated by the artist on several occasions. The restoration process has made it possible to recover theContinue reading “An Immaculate Restored”

Dedicated followers of my posts will recall that 2024 marked the 400th anniversary of the death of the painter Luis Tristán (1580/1585 – 1624), who trained in Toledo as a disciple of El Greco. Thankfully the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla has kept the celebrations going with a delightful new display of his works.Continue reading “Tristán’s Franciscans”