The Grecós House and Museum: A Place With a Rich History

In addition, in 1560 he arrives at Venice, moving to Rome in 1570. In Venice he was able to enter the world of the color and the space (Tiziano, Tintoretto...) and in Rome he knew the work Miguel Angel, although he maintained a bound to the expression of the Venetian color. In Toledo, he developed his personal way of paint. Mannerist, but of great expressive vigor, he also appears tied to the Spain of the Contrarreforma. Aside from his production of religious subjects, his work as a painter is important as well as his particular treatment and reinterpretation of the landscape.

The period that includes the decade of 1580 until 1614 (date of his death) had important orders, part of those orders appear between the collections of this museum. The base of the ruins of a 16th century house and of a Renaissance palace in the Judería Toledana raised principles that set what today constitutes the House and Museum of Greco. He was the Marquess of Vega-Incla'n that recovered these spaces, as well as the gardens between 1907 and 1910.

When the works finalized, the donation became serious to the State and the 27th of April of 1910, the Patronage in charge of this is constituted of important personalities of the time (Beruete, Sorolla, Mélida, Cossío...). The 12th of June of 1911, it was inaugurated and it opened to the public. The reason to qualify this joint age to lodge the work collection of the Greco that was dispersed by the city of Toledo (Church of San Jose, Hospital of Santiago, etc.) is that they ran risk of to disappear. This collection would be developed in 1921 with the later extension of rooms to expose paintings of the Spanish schools of the 17th century; this would be the departure point of a Center of Spanish Art, as it says in one of  the articles of the Real Decree of creation of the museum.

Now is the first stage when the museum will function properly; the project continues in the space of the House of the Greco and the garden. Also, they will qualify other zones to complete the exhibition halls and the public area of the museum.