El Greco was a painter, sculptor, and architect born in Crete, then part of the Republic of Venice, who trained in the Cretan icon-painting tradition before moving to Venice and Rome and finally settling in Toledo, Spain, in 1577, where he spent the rest of his career. His mature style, seen in works such as The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, The Disrobing of Christ, and the View of Toledo, fused Byzantine pictorial traditions with Venetian color and Mannerist composition into a highly personal idiom of tortuously elongated figures, dramatic light, and spiritual intensity. Largely overlooked for centuries after his death, El Greco was rediscovered in the early twentieth century and is now regarded as one of the great masters of the Spanish Renaissance and a precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism.
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BirthplaceCandia, Crete, Republic of Venice 1 Death PlaceToledo, Kingdom of Spain 1 Connections
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Mannerist painter of the Spanish Renaissance.
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Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος, pronounced [ðoˈminikos θeotoˈkopulos]; 1 October 1541 – 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco (Spanish pronunciation: [el ˈɣɾeko]; "The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time.
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1 October 1541
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7 April 1614
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7 April 1614
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El Greco was born in the Kingdom of Candia (modern Crete), which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, and the center of Post-Byzantine art.
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Toledo, Kingdom of Spain
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Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance
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El Greco was a nickname, 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.
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was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time
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was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time
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was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time
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View of Toledo (Wikipedia)
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View of Toledo (Spanish: Vista de Toledo), is one of the two surviving landscapes painted by El Greco, along with View and Plan of Toledo. View of Toledo is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Opening of the Fifth Seal (Wikipedia)
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