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Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος, IPA: [ðoˈminikos θeotoˈkopulos]; 1 October 1541 – 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco (Spanish pronunciation: [el ˈgɾeko]; "The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance.
View all 169 artworks. El Greco lived in the XVI – XVII cent., a remarkable figure of Spanish-Greek Mannerism (Late Renaissance). Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- Spanish, Greek
- April 7, 1614
- Crete, Greece
El Greco é considerado pelo modernos estudiosos como um artista tão individual que não o consideram como pertencente a nenhuma das escolas convencionais. É mais conhecido por suas figuras tortuosamente alongadas e uso frequente de pigmentação fantástica ou mesmo fantasmagórica, unindo tradições bizantinas com a pintura ocidental.
- Spanish, Greek
- Crete, Greece
October 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.
- Childhood
- Education and Early Training
- Mature Period
- Later Work
- The Legacy of El Greco
Doménikos Theotokópoulos was born in 1541 in Crete, a Greek island that was part of the thriving Republic of Venice. Little is known of his childhood, other than the fact that he chose to be an artist at a very young age.
In his hometown, Theotokópoulos trained as an icon painter. The portraiture style was a popular means of depicting religious subjects in a static, devotional way. By the time the young artist was 22 years of age, he had become a master of this post-Byzantine type of art. In the years following his studies, he was commissioned to paint alter pieces ...
After three years in Venice, in 1570, Theotokópoulos moved to Rome, where he lived in the quarters of the palace of a wealthy patron named Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. This position makes it clear that he was well connected, possibly recommended by a Venetian friend. Theotokópoulos joined the painters' academy and set up a studio with two apprentic...
In 1585, El Greco moved to the medieval palace of Marqués de Villena, most likely in need of a larger painting studio. He enjoyed a stable social life, and was close friends with various scholars, intellectuals, writers, and churchmen. Between 1597 and 1607, he enjoyed his most active period of commissions, being contracted to paint for several cha...
El Greco is generally considered one of the leading figures of the Spanish Renaissance that defined the 15th and 16thcenturies. Although at the time, due to his greatly individualistic expressive style, his art was received with much reluctance and confusion, he is now considered to be one of the "select members of the modern pantheon of great pain...
- Greek-Spanish
- April 7, 1614
- Crete, Greece
Há 5 dias · The majority of El Greco's paintings were produced for Toledo and its neighbourhood. He made several versions of his most famous compositions during the course of his career. Paintings by El Greco. Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known as El Greco, 'The Greek', was born in Crete, which was then a Venetian possession.
previous slide. Overview The man known as El Greco was a Greek artist whose emotional style vividly expressed the passion of Counter-Reformation Spain. Here at the National Gallery is the most important collection of his work outside that country, which was his adopted home.
