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‘El Greco. Santo Domingo el Antiguo' Review: Awe-Inspiring Altarpieces

Madrid The conventual church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo, Spain, played a crucial role in the life and work of Doménikos Theotokópoulos, better known as El Greco. It was there that the painter received his first major Spanish commission, a complex series of altarpiece paintings. Thirty-seven years later, he was buried there, watched over by one of his final works.