
The Feast in the House of Simon
El GrecoWorkshop of El Greco

Baroque Painter · Active 1608 – 1608
Paintale's collection includes 1 paintings attributed to El GrecoWorkshop of El Greco, a figure of the Baroque period whose recurring subjects — portrait — trace a consistent set of preoccupations across a career's worth of commissions.
Where to see the work: Art Institute of Chicago.
Working at the height of the Baroque period, El GrecoWorkshop of El Greco produced a body of work that remains foundational to Western art. The recurring themes across the surviving paintings — portrait — show an artist returning to the same questions about the human figure, light, and the moral weight of a scene that Baroque painting was uniquely equipped to answer.
El GrecoWorkshop of El Greco's paintings have found permanent homes at institutions such as Art Institute of Chicago. Every entry on Paintale digs into how each piece was made, what it depicts, and how it has been read and re-read since it left the studio.
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