Tintoretto and Titian. In 1577, he moved to Toledo, Spain, where he lived and worked until his death. In Toledo, El Greco received several major commissions and...
95 KB (10,829 words) - 01:29, 25 April 2024
in 1567, never to return. El Greco's three years in Venice profoundly influenced his style. In 1577, he emigrated to Toledo, Spain, where he lived and...
42 KB (1,020 words) - 22:09, 29 March 2024
View of Toledo (original title Vista de Toledo), is one of the two surviving landscapes painted by El Greco, along with View and Plan of Toledo. View of...
11 KB (1,487 words) - 18:43, 29 August 2023
The El Greco Museum (in Spanish: Museo del Greco) is located in Toledo, Spain. It celebrates the mannerist painter El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos...
6 KB (486 words) - 13:24, 29 February 2024
El Greco is a 1998 classical album by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis (1943 - 2022). The title is a reference to the man who inspired the...
4 KB (345 words) - 16:43, 31 January 2024
copy in the El Greco Museum. El Greco Museum, Toledo, Spain (where El Greco worked later) "Domenikos Theotokopoulos Museum — El Greco Museum". Crete-Kreta...
3 KB (300 words) - 09:07, 28 January 2024
Of El Greco, Hortensio Félix Paravicino, a seventeenth-century Spanish preacher and poet, said: "Crete gave him life and the painter's craft, Toledo a...
30 KB (4,021 words) - 18:38, 9 September 2023
Conception by El Greco. The work on the painting began in 1607 and was completed in 1613. It is owned by the church of San Nicolás de Bari in Toledo, Spain....
9 KB (1,152 words) - 12:23, 1 April 2024
intense emotional atmosphere. El Greco places the classical subject against a gloomy view of Toledo. El Greco's use of Toledo as the backdrop for his depiction...
10 KB (1,212 words) - 23:05, 21 February 2024
Magdalene is a 1576–1578 painting by El Greco depicting Mary Magdalene, produced during his first period in Toledo and showing the major influence of Titian...
2 KB (152 words) - 01:31, 2 May 2024
El Greco is a 1966 Italian drama film and biography of the painter El Greco directed by Luciano Salce and starring Mel Ferrer and Rosanna Schiaffino....
4 KB (294 words) - 23:16, 6 January 2024
known as El Greco, in 1577–1579. The painting was a central element of the altarpiece of the church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo, Spain. It...
6 KB (749 words) - 16:43, 30 August 2023
the Garden is a 1590 oil on canvas painting by El Greco or his studio, dating to his second stay in Toledo and still showing the major influence of Titian...
2 KB (176 words) - 18:31, 18 May 2024
The Disrobing of Christ (redirect from The Disrobing of Christ (El Greco))
The Disrobing of Christ or El Expolio (Latin: Exspolĭum) is a painting by El Greco begun in the summer of 1577 and completed in the spring of 1579 for...
8 KB (1,031 words) - 04:52, 2 May 2024
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (redirect from El Entierro Del Conde De Orgaz)
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (Spanish: El Entierro del Conde de Orgaz) is a 1586 painting by El Greco, a prominent Renaissance painter, sculptor, and...
22 KB (2,850 words) - 01:19, 2 May 2024
View and Plan of Toledo (Spanish: Vista y plano de Toledo, ca. 1608) is a landscape painting by El Greco. The image is notable for its juxtaposition of...
15 KB (1,772 words) - 03:45, 2 November 2023
Theotokopoulos, known worldwide as El Greco. Based on the fictionalized biographical novel, El Greco: o Zografos tou Theou (El Greco: the Painter of God), by Dimitris...
7 KB (674 words) - 11:53, 1 August 2023
vestry of the Cathedral at Toledo—was obtained for him by Diego de Castilla, dean of the cathedral and father of El Greco's friend Luis it might be logically...
12 KB (1,680 words) - 13:27, 9 May 2023
works in Toledo Cathedral. Not all 13 works survived. (in Spanish) Àlvarez Lopera, José, El Greco, Madrid, Arlanza, 2005, Biblioteca «Descubrir el Arte»...
2 KB (139 words) - 23:12, 18 May 2024
Saint Martin and the Beggar is a painting by the Greek mannerist painter El Greco, painted c. 1597–1599, that currently is in the collection of The National...
2 KB (153 words) - 11:49, 4 December 2023
Ildefonsus is a 1609 painting by El Greco. It and his Saint Peter were both painted for the Church of San Vicente, Toledo. It has also previously been misidentified...
2 KB (134 words) - 07:25, 19 June 2023
Holy Trinity is a c.1577–1579 oil on canvas painting by El Greco, one of nine works he produced for the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos. Ferdinand VII...
1 KB (133 words) - 02:07, 2 May 2024
several great masters. The most renowned are the fifteen by El Greco, including his El Expolio (The Disrobing of Christ) on the high altar, framed by marblework...
105 KB (15,435 words) - 00:47, 16 November 2023
Saint Louis is a 1592–1595 painting by El Greco, painted during his time in Toledo. It is now in the Louvre in Paris. It shows Louis IX of France wearing...
2 KB (232 words) - 12:12, 1 April 2024
The Fable (Spanish - La Fábula) is a 1580 allegorical painting by El Greco, produced early in his Toledan period and now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid...
2 KB (218 words) - 13:03, 9 May 2023
by El Greco, one of a group of five paintings painted for the high altarpiece of the Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad in Illescas, Toledo. It...
3 KB (146 words) - 02:06, 2 May 2024
by El Greco, produced just after his arrival in Rome and with clear influence from Michelangelo, although the triangular composition is El Greco's own...
1 KB (108 words) - 09:02, 19 June 2023
The El Greco fallacy is typically a perceptive fallacy, where it is assumed that particular perceptual abnormalities will influence interactions with the...
4 KB (430 words) - 18:18, 20 April 2023
Jesus by El Greco. It was one of five paintings painted for the high altarpiece of the Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad in Illescas, Toledo. It and...
1 KB (104 words) - 13:41, 9 May 2023
El Soplón or Boy Blowing on an Ember is a 1571-1572 oil on canvas painting by El Greco, produced during his stay in Rome and inspired by a passage in Pliny...
2 KB (187 words) - 08:31, 19 June 2023