The spot where El Greco might have set his easel is where Parador Naçional (Cerro del Emperador; +34 925221850) is now located, one of those in the Los Paradores historic hotel chain.

For centuries, Spanish Renaissance painter El Greco was a non-entity. No one studied his startling, unconventional work hanging high in a gothic cathedral, obscure convents and Spanish museums. It ...

In such a time, Toledo found it easy to understand El Greco’s inner vision, which triumphed over perspective and proportion to create his own soaring, flamelike dimensions of beauty and power.

TOLEDO: The Spanish city of Toledo on Friday welcomed back the master painter El Greco, whose vivid works have returned from around the world to adorn his adoptive city 400 years after his death ...

Bailey sees in that aspect of El Greco’s art part of its appeal to modern eyes. “In some ways the 20th century responded to him as a visionary expressionist,” Bailey said.

Great Works: View of Toledo (c1600), El Greco Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Tom Lubbock. Friday 26 June 2009 00:00 BST. Comments. Your support helps us to tell the story. Read more.

Following El Greco’s death in 1614, he faded into relative obscurity—at least until the end of the 19th century, when modern artists such as Picasso “rediscovered” his oeuvre, Long tells WTTW.