El Greco. Santo Domingo el Antiguo

El Greco, The Holy Trinity, 1577 - 1579, Museo del Prado, Madrid.

In this exhibition, eight of the nine works that El Greco painted for the conventual church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo are displayed in the Central Gallery of the Villanueva Building for the first time since their dispersal.

The Assumption, the large central canvas for the principal altarpiece, which has been in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1906, is displayed alongside the two works from that altarpiece in the collection of the Museo del Prado, the canvases that remain in Santo Domingo el Antiguo, and those now in other collections.

Curated by Leticia Ruiz, Head of the Collection of Spanish Renaissance Painting, the reuniting of these works is a remarkable artistic event which will allow visitors to see an exceptional group within El Greco’s early output in Spain.