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The Greek-born artist, sculptor, and architect Domnikos Theotokópoulos (1 October 1541 – 7 April 1614), more commonly known as El Greco (“The Greek”), was a major figure of the Spanish Renaissance.
In contrast to the portraiture of the court painters of the time of Philip II, El Greco brought a new spirit to a genre not often practised in Spain and provided Spanish painting with an example of spontaneity, from which Velázquez was to learn.
Accomplishments. El Greco is best known for his tortuously elongated figures painted in phantasmagorical pigmentation, which almost resembled chalk with its blunt vividness.
Born in Crete, El Greco was trained as an icon painter. Two certain examples survive, and these remind us of the Neoplatonic, non-naturalistic basis of El Greco’s art, before he set about transforming himself into a disciple of Titian and an avid student of Tintoretto, Veronese, and Jacopo Bassano.
El Greco. Oct 1, 1541 - Apr 7, 1614. Doménikos Theotokópoulos, most widely known as El Greco, was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance.
Fusing Byzantine traditions with Western art, El Greco is noted for his extended figures and often fanciful pigmentation and because of this many modern scholars believe that El Greco is a truly unique artist who broke the rules of all conventional schools.
9 Φεβ 2021 · More than 60 paintings from 29 cities around the world arrived in Toledo in March 2014 for the largest exhibition of El Greco’s works in history. New York — the museums of this city have an impressive collection of El Greco.
