Holy Family (El Greco, Hospital de Tavera) pose of St Joseph and the position of St Anne. Holy Family (El Greco, Hospital de Tavera) Holy Family is a 1595 oil on canvas painting by El Greco, painted during his time in Toledo and now in the Hospital de Tavera in that city. The work is very similar to those painted by the same artist during his stay in Rome. The artist frequently returned to the theme of the Holy Family. Though this work has similarities to his work on the same subject now in the Museum of Santa Cruz, he has omitted the infant John the Baptist,
The Fable (El Greco) The Fable (El Greco) The Fable (Spanish - "La Fábula") is a 1580 allegorical painting by El Greco, produced early in his Toledan period and now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The light effects and use of colour show the influence of Jacopo Bassano, which the painter had picked up in Italy. It shows a monkey and a rogue flanking a boy blowing on an ember or taper. The central figure was a frequent theme for the artist (he had painted it a few years earlier as "El Soplón" for example), drawn from a story in Pliny the