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El Greco (Spanish, 1541–1614) - National Gallery of Art El Greco's Style Born on the island of Crete, Domenikos Theotokopoulos acquired the name El Greco—the Greek—in Italy and Spain. After working as an icon painter in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, he left Crete in 1568 to study western-style painting in Venice. There he was influenced by the Venetian artists Titian and Tintoretto, embracing ...
El Greco: A modern artist in the 16th Century - BBC 26 Aug 2014 · El Greco – or Domenikos Theotokopoulos, as he was born – was born in 1541 in Crete, which was then a colony of the Most Serene Republic of Venice, the reigning bosses of the Mediterranean.
El Greco - 188 artworks - painting - WikiArt.org El Greco's father, Geórgios Theotokópoulos (d. 1556), was a merchant and tax collector. Nothing is known about his mother or his first wife, also Greek. El Greco's older brother, Manoússos Theotokópoulos (1531 – 13 December 1604), was a wealthy merchant and spent the last years of his life (1603–1604) in El Greco's Toledo home.
El Greco Paintings, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory Summary of El Greco. El Greco's life and work were marked by a deep underlying devotion to God. Compelled as a young man to become an artist, he mastered a longstanding tradition of Byzantine icon art, yet by the time he eventually settled in Spain his inspiration was largely drawn from the burgeoning Italian and Spanish Renaissances.Although his early ambitions were to …
El Greco | Paintings, Art, Museum, Biography, & Facts | Britannica 10 Apr 2025 · El Greco (born 1541, Candia [Iráklion], Crete—died April 7, 1614, Toledo, Spain) was a master of Spanish painting, whose highly individual dramatic and expressionistic style met with the puzzlement of his contemporaries but gained newfound appreciation in the 20th century. He also worked as a sculptor and as an architect.
El Greco (1541–1614) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1 Oct 2004 · El Greco is one of the few old master painters who enjoys widespread popularity. Like Vermeer, Piero della Francesca, and Botticelli, he was rescued from obscurity by an avid group of nineteenth-century collectors, critics, and artists and became one of the select members of the modern pantheon of great painters.For Picasso, as for so many later admirers, El Greco …
Art of El Greco - Wikipedia El Greco (1541–1614) was a prominent painter, sculptor and architect active during the Spanish Renaissance.He developed into an artist so unique that he belongs to no conventional school. His dramatic and expressionistic style was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries but gained newfound appreciation in the 20th century.
El Greco - Wikipedia El Greco was a nickname, [a] and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters often adding the word Κρής (Krḗs), which means "Cretan" in Ancient Greek. El Greco was born in the Kingdom of Candia (modern Crete), which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, Italy, and the center of Post ...
El Greco (1541 - 1614) | National Gallery, London Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known as El Greco, 'The Greek', was born in Crete, which was then a Venetian possession. El Greco trained in Venice, where he developed his intense, colourful Mannerist style. By 1577 El Greco had settled in Toledo, Spain, where he lived the rest of his life, executing mostly pictures for local religious foundations.
El Greco - Paintings, Toledo & Greek - Biography 2 Apr 2014 · El Greco was a Greek artist whose painting and sculpture helped define the Spanish Renaissance and influence various movements to come.
