One of the later masterpieces painted by Greek artist Domenicus Theotokopoulos - a Spanish Renaissance painter, sculptor and architect who was better known by the nickname El Greco - is to be exhibited at the Teloglion Foundation of Arts at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for two months after March 8.

   The painting is a 57 x 79.3 cm oil on canvas of the "Coronation of the Virgin" and dates to what is considered the artist's mature creative period (1603-1605). El Greco painted this as a study for a similar composition commissioned for a chapel in a hospital near Toledo dedicated to the Virgin.

   It was acquired by the 'Alexandros S. Onassis' Foundation in 2008 and is temporarily housed in the National Gallery until the completion of the foundation's 'Home of Arts and Letters' on Syngrou Avenue, where it will eventually be placed on display on a permanent basis, alongside the other works in the Onassis Foundation collection.