Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Moving any artwork requires skilled and well-coordinated art handlers—and moving one of the largest paintings in our collection requires lots of them!

It took 12 of our in-house experts to safely deinstall El Greco's "The Assumption of the Virgin" so that it could be transported to Spain for the Museo del Prado's "El Greco. Santo Domingo el Antiguo."

Hats off to these talented museum professionals!
Learn more about the process with curator Rebecca Long.

Work depicted:
Domenico Theotokópoulos, called El Greco. "The Assumption of the Virgin," 1577–1579. Gift of Nancy Atwood Sprague in memory of Albert Arnold Sprague.