A painting by Renaissance master El Greco has found itself at the centre of a fierce ownership row between the Romanian state ...

El Greco’s “Saint Luke Painting the Virgin” (1560-66) and “Adoration of the Magi” (1560-1568), two icons in the show done in Greek Orthodox style, are both badly damaged.

A picture of a saint who has used his sword to cut his cloak in two and now gives half to a freezing beggar is not, in El Greco’s conception, an arrested action or a snippet of time, like a ...