The catalogue
The catalogue that accompanies the exhibition contains three general essays: the first
by the exhibition’s curator Javier Barón; another on the construction of El Greco as a
painter by Leticia Ruiz, head of the department of Spanish Painting (up to 1700) at the
Museo del Prado; and a third by Pedro José Martínez Plaza, assistant curator in the
department of 19th-century painting at the Prado, which analyses the collecting of El
Greco in Spain. There are also four texts that cover the principal sections into which
the exhibition is organised: Javier Barón on Manet and the dissemination of Cubism;
Veronika Schroeder on Expressionism; Jeffrey Schrader on El Greco’s influence on
20th-century American painting; and Javier Portús on the evolution of El Greco’s
influence, from Surrealism to the new figurative movements.
The catalogue is dedicated to José Álvarez Lopera, chief curator of Spanish Painting at
the Prado from 2003 until his premature and unexpected death in 2008. It was he who
first proposed an exhibition at the Museum that would reveal the influence of El
Greco on the development of modern art.
The catalogue is available from the Museum’s shop. Price: 25 Euros.