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El Greco's oeuvre is thus divided in three main periods:
El Greco was mainly a painter but a few sculptures, including ''Epimetheus and Pandora'', have also been attributed to El Greco.X. de Salas, ''The Velazquez Exhibition in Madrid'', 54-57 This doubtful attribution is based on the testimony of Pacheco. Pacheco saw in El Greco's studio a series of figurineso (of wax, stucco, and wood), but these may have been merely models, like those used in the Italian workshops (like the one El Greco himself had created, when he was in Italy). The figures illustrated recall certain nudes in paintings by El Greco in their elongated proportions, but their naturalism and the accentuated musculature of the male figure are regarded by certain researchers as surprising for El Greco.Web Gallery of Art, Epimetheus and Pandora Among the surviving works of the master are also four drawings;The Guardian, El Greco Drawings Could Fetch £400,000 three of them are preparatory works for the altarpiece of Santo Domingo el Antiguo and the fourth one is a study for one of his paintings, ''The Crucifixion''.Web Gallery of Art, Study for St John the Evangelist and an Angel LIST OF SELECTED WORKS
Since 1962 the discovery of the ''Dormition'' and the extensive archival research has gradually convinced scholarship that Wethey's assessements were not undisputed, and that his catalogue decisions may have distorted the whole nature of El Greco's origins, development and oeuvre. The discovery of the ''Dormition'' led to the attributions of other three signed works of "Doménicos" to El Greco (''Modena Triptych'',''St. Luke Painting the Virgin and Child'' and ''The Adoration of the Magi'') and then to the acceptance as authentic of more works, some signed, some not, which were brought into the group of early works of El Greco. In 2006 another disputed work, ''The Passion of Christ — Pietà with Angels'', has been finally attributed to El Greco. The painting had been photographed just before the signature was removed; Nano Chatzidakis, curator of the British Library exhibition and Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology at the University of Ioannina, unearthed the restorer’s photograph.D. Alberge, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2326011,00.html Collector Is Vindicated as Icon is Hailed as El Greco] Nowadays the number of El Greco's works is estimated at about 500. Nevertheless, certain disputes over the exact number of El Greco's authentic works remain unresolved, and the status of Wethey's (still highly esteemed) catalogue is at the centre of these disagreements. Quantitatively, the disagreements are mostly concerned with the end rather than the beginning of his career. It is clear his son continued to sell "El Grecos" for many years after the artists death, and in his later years he had a large workshop who, as with other important artists of the period, produced repetitions of many of his compositions. The identification of these, and deciding how much involvement the master had, if any, in each case, remains unsettled. These are some of El Greco's most important paintings: '']] Cretan period (b. 1567)
Italian period (1567-1577)
'']]'']]'']]'']]'']] Spanish period (1577-1614)
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