The Immaculate Conception (El Greco, Toledo) the poet had viewed "The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception". Contemporary artists as well, such as Kysa Johnson, in her specific use of "The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception" as a basis for her works, have been influenced by the 16th-and-early-17th-century artist. The Immaculate Conception (El Greco, Toledo) "The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception" is a painting of the Immaculate Conception by El Greco. The work on the painting began in 1607 and was completed in 1613. It is owned by the church of San Nicolás de Bari in Toledo. It is displayed, however, in the Museo De Toledo. El
Art of El Greco Art of El Greco El Greco (1541–1614) was a prominent painter, sculptor and architect active during the Spanish Renaissance. He developed into an artist so unique that he belongs to no conventional school. His dramatic and expressionistic style was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries but gained new found appreciation in the 20th century. He is best known for tortuously elongated bodies and chests on the figures and often fantastic or phantasmagorical pigmentation, marrying Byzantine traditions with those of Western civilization. Of El Greco, Hortensio Félix Paravicino, a seventeenth-century Spanish preacher and poet, "Crete gave him life and the painter's