El Greco: Portrait of an Artist

October 12, 2000 | 6.30 pm
Little Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai

Here is a recreation of not only the events of E1 Greco’s career but also the pressures and emotions of the Counter-Reformation, which inspired his religious works. This programme, filmed on location in Toledo and Venice, shows the settings familiar to the artist – his house, the streets, churches and countryside of Toiedo – and traces his beginnings as a Byzantine icon painter in Crete. EI Greco’s art expresses both the religion of his times and a private spiritual quest, explored here in masterpieces from great churches and museums of the world from Madrid to New York.
Director: Yvon Gerault