El Greco—An Oriental Artist

Abstract

THE present tendency of the Spaniards to consider El Greco an integral part of the history of Spanish painting has encouraged me to bring together here the evidence against this point of view. After the long indifference to El Greco in Spain, not only has an overestimation of the artist himself grown up there, but also a habit of imagining (one cannot say seeing) decisive influences of his art on that of Velasquez and Goya.