1) The best pieces include three paintings by El Greco.

2) In El Greco they are raised to heaven.

3) This work, and two other El Greco icons, will be seen for the first time in this country at the Metropolitan exhibition. They are also the first works visitors will see.

4) Picasso is trying to "take back" El Greco, by corrupting our capacity to see the original.

5) El Greco continues to inspire a new generation of contemporary artists.

6) I suppose Velasquez was a better painter than El Greco.

7) The last major El Greco exhibition in the United States opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1982.

8) El Greco, theflamboyant Greek painter,[http:///el greco.html] spent years capturing the beauty of the cityand its occupants.

9) He is strongly influenced by Spanish painters such as Goya and El Greco.

10) The news of its discovery comes just a week after another "lost" El Greco work was put on display in Poland.

11) In the Metropolitan's nearby Robert Wood Johnson Jr. Gallery the museum will display five Pollock drawings that are at least loosely based on El Greco paintings.

12) "This painting originates from a particularly exciting moment in El Greco"s career, when the artist was still developing what became his distinctive style. "

13) As a young man, Mr. Salinger had a long, melancholy face and deep soulful eyes, but now, in the few photographs that surfaced, he looked gaunt and gray, like someone in an El Greco painting.

14) I should want to feast my eyes upon the warm colors of Veronese, study the mysteries of El Greco, catch a new vision of Nature from Corot.

15) But since the 19th century, when a group of critics, artists and collectors rediscovered his work, El Greco has been an enduring fascination for modern artists.