In 1624, a decade on from El Greco ’s death, The Baptism of Christ , a towering canvas of Jesus kneeling beneath a radiant God and a swirl of angels, was fixed as the altarpiece inside the church of Hospital Tavera in Toledo. It was among the painter’s last commissions and the interlude, paired with some stylistic irregularities, have long led scholars to believe that the painting was largely the work of El Greco’s son, Jorge Manuel , along with the help of trusted hands from the Spanish Renaissance master’s workshop. New research that used artificial intelligence to analyze The Baptism of Christ at the microscopic level, however, has suggested that El Greco painted the majority of the painting himself. The findings, led by researchers from Western Reserve University in Ohio, were published in Science Advances on April 17. (A) Network diagram showing the maximum modularity (Q) partition. Four communities are present.…