El Greco  

"Not many writers on art have seen fit to pay particular attention to El Greco. A few Spaniards, Señor Beruete heading them; Max Boehm, Carl Justi (in his Diego Velasquez); Paul Lafond, William Ritter, Arthur Symons, William Stirling, Signor Venturi, Louis Viardot, Wyzewa, Havelock Ellis, and the inimitable Théophile Gautier--whose Travels in Spain, though published in 1840, is, as Mr. Ellis truthfully remarks, still a storehouse of original exploration. But the Cossio work, naturally, tops them all. He is an adorer, though not fanatical, of his hero, and it is safe to assert that all that is known to-day of El Greco will be found in these pages. The origins of the painter, his visit to Italy, his arrival at Toledo, are described with references to original documents--few as they are." --Promenades of an Impressionist (1910) by James Huneker

"In the great sacristy, near the smaller one, there is a Christ on the Cross by Domenico Theotokopouli, called el Greco an extravagant and erratic painter, whose work might be mistaken for sketches by Titian, did not a certain affectation of sharp, carelessly painted forms betray him very quickly. In order to give his paintings the appearance of being very boldly painted, he has daubed here and there, with incredible petulance and brutality, thin, sharp lights, which traverse the shadows like sword-cuts. All the same, el Greco is a great painter; the good works in his second manner resemble Romanticist paintings by Eugene Delacroix."--Travels in Spain (1843) by Theophile Gautier