El Greco Museum, Toledo

El Greco Museum

Museo del Greco
View of the Museum
Location	Toledo, Spain
Coordinates	39°51′21″N 4°1′45″W
Type	Single-artist museum
Spanish Cultural Heritage
Official name	Casa y Museo del Greco
Type	Non-movable
Criteria	Monument
Designated	1 March 1962
Reference no.	RI-51-0001411

The El Greco Museum (Spanish: Museo del Greco) is a single-artist museum in Toledo, Spain, devoted to the work and life of El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos, 1541–1614), who spent much of his life in Toledo, having been born in Fodele, Crete. It is one of the National Museums of Spain and it is attached to the Ministry of Culture.

The house and museum

The museum first opened in 1911 and is located in the Jewish Quarter of Toledo. It consists of two buildings, a 16th-century house with a courtyard and an early 20th century building forming the museum, together with a garden. The house recreates the home of El Greco, which no longer exists. The museum houses many artworks by El Greco, especially from his late period. There are also paintings by other 17th-century Spanish artists, as well as furniture from the period and pottery from Talavera de la Reina in the Province of Toledo.

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  Entrance
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  Tiled image of San Sebastian
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  Courtyard

Collection

Apostalado by El Greco

A complete series of 13 paintings portraying Christ and his disciples originally produced between 1610 and 1614 by El Greco and his workshop for the Hospital de Santiago in Toledo. The series was conceived and executed as a single project, with Christ looking directly out of the picture, six of the disciples looking to the left and six to the right. The disciples represent his 12 original followers, except that the disgraced Judas Iscariot is replaced by Saint Paul. All the works are oil on canvas with a size of 97 x 77 cm.

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  View of gallery
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  Christ as Saviour
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  Saint Peter
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  Saint Paul
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  St John the Evangelist
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  Saint James the Greater
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  Saint Bartholomew
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  Saint Thaddeus (Jude)
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  Saint Simon
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  Saint Matthew
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  Saint Thomas
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  Saint Philip
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  Saint James the Less
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  Saint Andrew

Other works

In addition to other works by El Greco the museum has paintings by various Spanish artists.

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  Coronation with Thorns and Abuse, Maestro de la Sisla, 1450–1510
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  The Tears of Saint Peter, El Greco, 1587–1596
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  Portrait of Diego de Covarrubias y Leiva, El Greco, 1600
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  View and Plan of Toledo, El Greco, 1608
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  The Disrobing, Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli, c.1606
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  Tears of Saint Peter, Francisco de Zurbarán, c.1633
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  Auto de fé celebrated in the 17th century in a large Spanish public square, Escuela madrileña, 1656
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  Christ gathering up his robes, Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa, 17th century

See also

• Museum of El Greco, Fodele, Crete (birthplace of El Greco)
• List of works by El Greco
• List of single-artist museums

External links

• Museum website
• Photos and history in Maravillas Ocultas de España
• El Greco Museum, Toledo within Google Arts & Culture
• Media related to Museo del Greco (Toledo) at Wikimedia Commons