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 El Greco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
El Greco's liberation of form, light and color inspired artists such as Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock in their efforts to transform the art of painting of the 20th century.
El Greco (medieval Castilian for "the Greek") is the popular name for Δομίνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος Dominikos Theotokópulos (1541, Fodele?, Candia (modern Heraklion), Crete – April 7, 1614, Toledo, Spain), a Cretan Greek painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish school.
Many of El Greco's works are on display at Madrid's Museo del Prado; however others can be found in other places such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. The Burial of Count Orgaz was painted by El Greco in 1586.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Greco   (831 words)

  
 EL GRECO
El Greco, the genuine offspring of the age-long Greek tradition, managed to carry to the West the need for the fertile unification of the Byzantine art and the art of the Renaissance, abolishing the rhetoric of the bourgeois megalomania -which is typical of the Renaissance- from the art of sculpture, painting and the architecture.
Greco’s work is the proof that the painter has broken with the established ideas of his time, as well as the dominant ideas concerning writing and communication.
El Greco knew it and managed to exploit in many ways the tensions of the art of painting in portraits.
http://www.exparter.gr/en/exparter/el_greco.htm   (2373 words)

  
 EL GRECO
El Greco painted several works about this theme, maybe this painting is the most successful one.
El Greco painted this portrait in his early Spanish years.
The " Prado " has one of the several examples that the painter El Greco produced on this theme.
http://www.spanisharts.com/prado/greco.htm   (491 words)

  
 El Greco
El Greco was a "Spanish" Mannerist painter, whose work, together with that of Francisco de Goya and Diego Velázquez, represents the acme of Spanish art.
El Greco also painted views of the city of Toledo itself, such as View of Toledo, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, even though landscape was a genre traditionally neglected by Spanish artists.
The Burial also manifests El Greco's typical elongation of figures and a horror vacui (dread of unfilled spaces), features of his art that became more pronounced in later years.
http://arthistory.heindorffhus.dk/frame-ElGreco.htm   (1503 words)

  
 Greco, El on Encyclopedia.com
El Greco in the whole: The National Gallery's El Greco exhibition is important not just for the quality of the works on show, but because it attempts to present the painter in the round.
El Greco became widely celebrated, largely because his idiosyncratic and intensely expressionistic style (see expressionism), his flickering light and indeterminate space, and his bold and almost abstract use of paint appealed strongly to contemporary tastes.
Trained first in the Byzantine school of icon painting, in 1567 he went to Venice, where he is known to have studied under Titian ; thereafter (1570-77) he painted in Rome.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/G/Greco-E1l.asp   (764 words)

  
 El Greco's Mystical Vision
El Greco's return again and again to the same subject, with only minor, but significant, compositional alterations, may be evidence of his training in the Byzantine school of icon painting, where artists are discouraged from deviating from the established model.
El Greco's art appeals directly to the individual and, although there is always an element of spiritual mystery in his work, it is not cryptic.
El Greco had no followers, although he had a sizable studio of assistants and a son who was also an artist, because no one could emulate such a unique style without being a mere copyist.
http://www.godspy.com/culture/El-Grecos-Mystical-Vision.cfm   (2671 words)

  
 EL GRECO - LoveToKnow Article on EL GRECO
El Grecos work is typically modern, and from it the portraitpainter, J. Sargent, claims to have learnt more than from that of any other artist.
Besides these, he is known to have painted thirty-two portraits, several manuscripts, and many paintings for altar-pieces in Toledo and the neighborhood.
It is a strangely individual work, representing Spanish character even more truthfully than did any Spanish artist, and it gathers up all the fugitive moods, the grace and charm, the devices and defects of a single race, and gives them complete stability in their wavering expressions.
http://92.1911encyclopedia.org/G/GR/GRECO_EL.htm   (869 words)

  
 The New Yorker: The Critics: The Art World
El Greco’s later ecstatic paintings are somewhat downplayed in the Met show, which concentrates on his terrific, strange, less well-known portraits.
El Greco feels at issue in art again today, as new painters, notably John Currin, raid museums for nuggets of refractory inspiration.
El Greco found his path to fame as a pictorial rhapsode of militant piety.
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/art?031020craw_artworld   (1302 words)

  
 El Greco: The Earthly Transformed
Their main point is that El Greco was a man of his time, and his art should be seen as such as well.
Along with van Gogh, El Greco is regarded the epitome of the lone genius, spurning the art of his time to pursue his unique, interior vision.
These assertions might be apocryphal--indeed, Michelangelo's influence is discernable in El Greco's art for years to come--yet certainly he was highly ambitious and argumentative and had an exalted opinion of his own talents.
http://www.worldandi.com/newhome/public/2004/january/arpub1.asp   (2871 words)

  
 El Greco : The Spanish Artist from Greece - Art History
El Greco seems to have borrowed of his style from Titian, the painter from whom he studied, and was more likely influenced by Italian painters Bassano, Veronese and Tintoretto.
However, El Greco’s style was distinctly original by the time he had established his style as a painter.
Born as Domenikos Theotokopoulos, this talented painter was born on the island of Crete around the year 1540.
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art39705.asp   (775 words)

  
 Art/Museums: El Greco at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art, London
El Greco, of course, precedes Turner and Van Gogh chronologically.
The achievements of El Greco, on the other hand, are bounded by traditional religious subject matter and portraits, and his style of elongation and vibrant palette owe not a little to the Italian Mannerists such as Michelangelo, Parmigianino, and Bronzino.
For Picasso, too, El Greco was both the quintessential Spaniard and a precursor of Cezanne and Cubism.
http://www.thecityreview.com/elgreco.html   (4310 words)

  
 Greco, El - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Greco, El
El Greco may have been the first painter to exploit the mysterious and rich effects of shadow produced by artificial light, as in his Boy Blowing on Coals (Naples).
El Greco settled in Toledo in 1577, his aim no doubt in going to Spain being to work for Philip II, a lover of Venetian art.
Spanish painter called ‘the Greek’ because he was born in Crete.
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Greco,+El   (780 words)

  
 NGA - El Greco
El Greco has been called a prophet of modern art, a mystic, and even a man whose sight was distorted by astigmatism, all misconceptions that have clouded understanding of his distinctive but deliberate style.
El Greco was a Greek-born artist whose emotional style vividly expressed the passion of Counter-Reformation Spain.
The haunting intensity of El Greco’s paintings— resulting from their unnaturally long figures and strong contrasts of color and light— has invited a kind of mythmaking about his life and art.
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg29/gg29-main1.html   (191 words)

  
 interkriti: Domenicos Theotokopoulos- El Greco - Cretan Painter
El Greco's art is the product of both his time and his genius.
interkriti: Domenicos Theotokopoulos- El Greco - Cretan Painter
It is certain that he was trained in the art of the icon in the Cretan style but his works shows most clearly an absolute dependence of the Venetian School of the sixteenth century.
http://www.interkriti.org/culture/elgreco   (836 words)

  
 Art Guild Lecture: El Greco
El Greco excelled also as a portraitist, mainly of ecclesiastics or gentlemen, although one of his most beautiful works is a portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as a likeness of Jeronima de las Cuevas, his common-law wife.
The strangeness of his art has inspired various theories, for example that he was mad or suffered from astigmatism, but his rapturous paintings make complete sense as an expression of the religious fervour of his adopted country.
Among the surviving works of his Italian period are two paintings of the Purification of the Temple, a much-repeated theme, and the portrait of Giulio Clovio.
http://www.netserves.com/moca/lectures/rhetelgr.htm   (474 words)

  
 El Greco
El Greco's interest in going beyond pure representation and into a mind's eye depiction of the more profound underlying truths of his subject matter led him to the idiosyncratic distortions that characterize his mature style: elongation of figures, violent contrasts of light and dark, rich colorations--stylistic tools deliberately applied for their expressive effect.
A major retrospective of the paintings of El Greco has been organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery in London.
It is no wonder that he championed the then revolutionary concept of painter as artist in the world of his time that ranked the painter as a craftsman.
http://www.culturevulture.net/ArtandArch2/ElGreco.htm   (527 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Arts Arts features A revelatory El Greco retrospective
Cezanne (like El Greco, another self-taught solitary whose art was born of great difficulty) copied him, and Picasso derived his Demoiselles d'Avignon in part from El Greco's The Opening of the Fifth Seal, which was then owned by a fellow Spaniard living in Paris.
As he sat there, painting this other painter painting, El Greco might himself have been struck with the thought that he didn't know enough, and had not seen enough.
Picture gallery: highlights of the El Greco exhibition at the National Gallery
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,1144745,00.html   (1611 words)

  
 Amazon.com: El Greco: Books: Xavier Bray,Keith Christiansen,Gabriele Finaldi,David Davies,John H. Elliott
El Greco (1541-1614), born Domenikos Theotokopoulos, was one of the most fascinating and distinctive artists of the sixteenth century.
Treating the early stages of El Greco's work, as well as his lesser-known experiments in sculpture, this authoritative, comprehensive catalogue adds yet another chapter to the artist's permanent record as a looming figure in the history of western art.
With his swooning, mystical compositions, El Greco remains a primary figure both in Renaissance painting and in the development of modern art, a favorite of such masters as Picasso and Cezanne.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1857099338?v=glance   (1113 words)

  
 BBC NEWS Entertainment Arts El Greco art discovered in Spain
El Greco, born in Crete, had a unique style, characterised by elongated forms and bright colours, that inspired 20th Century painters such as Cezanne, Picasso and Jackson Pollock.
The auction house says it dates from El Greco's time in Venice, from 1567-70, and is an extremely rare example of his work from that period.
A 16th Century painting by artist El Greco, valued at £500,000, has been discovered in an envelope in Spain.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3762514.stm   (331 words)

  
 El Greco - New York Art Review
El Greco began as an icon painter in Crete, and certain formal qualities of Byzantine icons—such as their elongation of the figure—never left his art.
The great virtue of the exhibition El Greco at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is that it highlights the enriching tensions in El Greco’s sensibility, emphasizing both his range and his most “delirious” creations.
On view at the Met are three astonishing genre paintings the young El Greco made of a boy blowing on a burning ember to light a candle.
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/art/reviews/n_9298   (1151 words)

  
 NG London/Past Exhibitions/2004/El Greco
The exhibition was organised by the National Gallery, London and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
He settled in the Spanish city of Toledo in 1577, where he electrified the artistic, political and religious establishment with his unique visionary style, characterised by elongated forms and bright colours, and combining aspects of Byzantine and Western art.
After training as an icon painter on his native island of Crete, El Greco studied in Venice and Rome.
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/past/el_greco.htm   (203 words)

  
 El Greco enigma csmonitor.com
"El Greco was one of the most original painters of all time, so people want to know: How do you explain it?" says Jonathan Brown, professor of art at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.
Yet El Greco's late paintings do not look like other late Mannerist works, which Christiansen describes as "very deadening." According to the curator, "An intensely expressive aspect sets El Greco's apart." There's no historical evidence El Greco was a mystic, but the powerful paintings "express something deeply spiritual," he says.
The last major survey, "El Greco of Toledo" in 1982, depicted the painter as a Mannerist practitioner of Art for Art's Sake - a worldly man without deep religious convictions.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1003/p20s01-alar.html   (1183 words)

  
 El Greco in Toledo
This disfavor was further perpetuated by the extravagance El Greco displayed: in those days, it was customary for an artist to work only on commissioned projects, but El Greco painted on a personal whim.
uriously, what El Greco painted, also narrated the scope of his work: his career was but a small success.
l Greco’s arrival in Toledo seems to have been a tangible turning point in his career: not only did his production gain much larger scope, but his style evolved into that inimitable trademark that is his alone.
http://www.kaiku.com/greco.html   (1567 words)

  
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: El Greco
There are sections devoted to his depiction of saints, a selection of his large-scale altarpieces, a representation of his work as a sculptor, his rare excursions into mythological themes, and an extraordinary selection of his psychologically intense portraits, so greatly admired by Velázquez.
The works span the whole of his career, from his origins as a painter of icons in his native Crete to his work in Venice and Rome and his definitive move to Toledo, Spain.
This major retrospective exhibition consists of approximately 70 works by the great 16th-century painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known to posterity as El Greco.
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={5BC2299D-FC6B-11D6-94C7-00902786BF44}   (257 words)

  
 glbtq >> arts >> Greco, El (Domenicos Theotocopoulos)
In late 1567, El Greco emigrated to Venice, where he taught himself how to paint in the "modern" Italian Renaissance style through the independent study of major works by Titian, Tintoretto, and other leading artists.
These works helped to establish his reputation as one of the leading artists in Spain.
Three paintings by El Greco: a self portrait (top), St.
http://www.glbtq.com/arts/greco_e.html   (853 words)

  
 El Greco
"El Greco's elongated figures, ever straining upward, his intense and unusual colors, his passionate involvement in his subject, his ardor and his energy, all combine to create a style that is wholly distinct and individual.
The Christian doctrines of Spain made a crucial impact on his approach to painting, and his art represents a blend of passion and restraint, religious fervor and Neo-Platonism, influenced by the mysticism of the Counter-Reformation.
El Greco (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists), illustrated by Mike Venezia.
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/E/el_greco.html   (861 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Arts El Greco at the National Gallery
The National Gallery in London will be hosting the first major exhibition in the UK of work by the 16th century artist El Greco from February 11, 2004.
The exhibition, organised by the National Gallery and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, showcases his characteristic style of lengthened forms and bright, electric colours.
Jonathan Jones on the art of El Greco
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/gallery/0,8542,1129878,00.html   (126 words)

  
 El Greco
El Greco: The Expressionism of His Final Years.
EL GRECO Exposition organisee par la 'Gazette des Beaux-Arts', Paris 1937.
BABELON, J.: EL GRECO Petite monographie sur la vie et l'oeuvre d' El Greco.
http://www.scaruffi.com/art/greco.html   (357 words)

  
 El Greco (Getty Museum)
Confident, extravagant and rebellious, El Greco hired musicians to play while he ate and prided himself on his refusal to comply with his clients' demands.
Though he settled in Toledo, Spain, the artist known as "The Greek" signed paintings with his Greek name, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, and was forever influenced by his birthplace.
"As surely as the rate of payment is inferior to the value of my sublime work, so will my name go down to posterity as one of the greatest geniuses of Spanish painting." --El Greco
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=824&page=1   (245 words)

  
 The Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access
Although stylistically different, the work of El Greco and the Spanish painter Francisco Zurbarán are both dramatic, conveying intense religious feeling and aiming to inspire a deeply spiritual response.
It caused such a stir among those who saw it that the Seville governing council urged the artist to move to its city.
This work, painted for the monastery of San Pablo el Reale in
http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_RenBar/pages/REN_5.shtml   (432 words)

  
 A Tribute To El Greco
El Greco created his work far from his fatherland, in a voluntary, though not less painful exile, always with the desire and homesickness for Crete, as attested by numerous pieces of evidence, and most significantly, by the signatures in Greek that persistedly accompany his paintings.
This same feeling led him to his decision to offer to the Nation Gallery the CD of his musical composition in three thousand signed copies, in order to establish a National Fund for the Purchase of Works of Art.
Vangelis Papathanassiou's musical composition is inspired by Domenicos Theotocopoulos' pictorial symphonies.
http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/perki/records/greco/greco.html   (290 words)

  
 El Greco
While El Greco may have appropriated elements of Venetian Mannerism from Tintoretto, such as his figural elongations and acid colors, he nonetheless made this style his own by infusing Saint Francis with an extraordinary religious intensity.
Text and image are the property of Joslyn Art Museum and may not be reproduced without written permission from Joslyn Art Museum.
El Greco is one of the artists most responsive to the religious fervor inspired by the Catholic Church during the Counter Reformation.
http://www.joslyn.org/permcol/euro/pages/elgreco.html   (270 words)

  
 El Greco's The Spoliation
But under "The Spoliation" The Web Gallery said there were many copies by other artists falsely attributed to Greco and only the original is of El Greco.
The painting was started in the summer of 1577 and completed in the spring of 1579.
1) One place within the Web Gallery said Greco did three copies of this painting.
http://www.jssgallery.org/Other_Artists/El_Greco/The_Spoliation.htm   (212 words)

  
 The Spoliation by GRECO, El
El Greco has produced one of the most dignified and moving portrayals of Christ in art.
The powerful effect of the painting especially depends upon his original and forceful use of colour.
A small, signed version of the Espolio, at Upton Park, Warwickshire, the original preliminary model is probably for the large painting.
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/g/greco_el/1576-80/04espoli.html   (309 words)

  
 Malaspina Great Books - El Greco (1541-1614)
The influence of El Greco in the world of art was for a long time lost sight of, but it was very real, and very far-reaching.
The house where he lived is now a museum of his works, saved to Spain by one of her nobles.
El Greco, however, derived very little influence from his master, for his works, beyond a certain influence of Bassano, Baroccio, Veronese, or Tintoretto&; are individual and distinct.
http://www.malaspina.org/home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=690   (1043 words)

  
 VANGELIS El Greco reviews and MP3
El Greco is a masterpiece and is IMO his finest work.
This tribute to the religious painter El Greco is a perfect example how Vangelis is still a true artist who pays no attention to commerciality or EasyListening.
Vangelis has made a musical interpretation of the life and works of El Greco (Greek who worked mostly in Spain, 16th-17th century if I remember right).
http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=7567   (1238 words)

  
 El Greco - Olga's Gallery
The most unusual painter in 16th-century Europe, El Greco combined the strict Byzantine style of his homeland, Greece, with influences received during his studies in Venice and the medieval tradition of the country where he worked, Spain.
He criticized his Last Judgment severely, and offered to produce a better composition.
El Greco, however, obtained very little influence from his master; but a certain influence of Bassano, Baroccio, Veronese, and Tintoretto could be felt but on the whole his works are very individual and distinct.
http://www.abcgallery.com/E/elgreco/elgreco.html   (223 words)

  
 Category:El Greco - Wikimedia Commons
El Greco (1541-1614) was a Spanish mannerist painter of Greek origin, known for his distinctive, intense style.
This page was last modified 07:01, 21 February 2006.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:El_Greco   (34 words)

  
 El Greco Online
El Greco at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 8 works by El Greco
• Research art auction values for El Greco (Artprice)
El Greco at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/greco_el.html   (582 words)

  
 El Greco: The Burial of Count Orgaz
The only other figure in the painting who is actually looking out of the painting, toward the viewer, is El Greco.
In this painting, El Greco depicts the soul of Count Orgaz (the baby figure in the middle of the painting) ascending to heaven while his physical body is being lowered into a coffin.
The unusual shape of the painting (the rounded top) is due to the fact that it was painted to fit onto a wall of this shape in the church.
http://www.eurekais.com/brock/orgazpic.htm   (193 words)

  
 The New York Review of Books: Singular in Everything
The strangeness begins with his name, which was properly Domenikos Theotokopoulos; he always signed his works thus, often in Greek characters, but in Italy he was called Il Greco, and in Spain Domenico Greco or El Griego.
Born in Crete, trained in Italy, he found recognition and employment only in Toledo, the capital of the Spanish Counter-Reformation, teeming with Neoplatonists and idealistic priests burning to take back Europe from the Protestants or, that hope failing, to make an implacable stand in the Spanish heartland.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16732   (357 words)

  
 Critical Cloud
It was inhumane and I am so glad to be back home again."
This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
There are, however, indications that the commentator was the same individual who was able to secure journalist Jill Carroll's release from an Iraqi terrorist group last March.
http://criticalcloud.blogspot.com   (1533 words)

  
 Santorini Hotels: ElGreco Hotel
EL GRECO is a well balanced establishment equally suitable for families due to its location and facilities and for couples due to its colourful reflection of charm!
EL GRECO hotel is located minutes away from the centre of magnificent Fira town, the capital of the unique and beautiful Santorini.
Upon arriving in the Hotel you are immediately stepped into a luxurious world where professional staff take great pride in their ability to assist and meet every conceivable need of the guests.
http://www.elgreco.com.gr   (362 words)

  
 Hotel El Greco
El Greco is open from the 25th of March until the end of October.
The hotel (all rooms on first floor) is in a very quite location with some rooms facing south and some facing north towards the mountain.
It consists of 11 rooms (8 double and 3 triple rooms) and 4 studios set right next door.
http://www.elgreco.sougia.info   (187 words)

  
 El Greco Hotel, Fira Santorini 20% DISCOUNT
As a contemporary establishment, blending with the heritage and love for the island, that nature has so richly endowed is added to your unforgettable holidays.
El Greco Hotel was built in 1996, consisting of, 19 apartments 7 suites and 30 rooms.
El Greco was built under strict specifications even for the most demanding guest.
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 HOTEL EL GRECO – Quality hotel at Thessaloniki city center - Book online
With its own private parking, guests arriving at Thessaloniki hotel EL GRECO are greeted by the hotel's friendly staff, always willing to serve any guests´ need within a family atmosphere.
Despite its central location, all the hotel's 90 rooms are very quiet, providing a complete break from the outside world.
Hotel El Greco is the ideal choice for visitors to the city of Thessaloniki either for business of for pleasure.
http://www.hotelelgreco.gr   (252 words)

  
 Hotel Pintor el Greco, Hotel in the historic center of Toledo, Hotel in Toledo, Spain
It has been restored conserving the façade and a patio with fountain.
The Hotel Pintor El Creco is located in the Jewish quarter, one of the areas of Toledo with most historic tradition.
The Hotel El Greco is a typical 17th century Toledan house, once used as a bakery.
http://www.hotel-pintorelgreco.com   (169 words)

  
 EL GRECO, Crete Island, Greece - Discount Hotel Reservations
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All points of interest, such as famous archaeological and the historical museums, St. Mina's Cathedral, the Venetian Port, central fruit market, as well as the bus stop to Knossos, banks and tourist shops, are only a few minutes walk from it.
http://www.stayxs.com/new/booking/hotel_detail.asp?wsid=9&hhm_id=5883   (358 words)

  
 GRECO, El
GRECO, El GRECO, El Spanish painter of Greek origin (b.
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1586-88)
http://www.wga.hu/html/g/greco_el   (57 words)

  
 El Greco Hotel - Nassau - El Greco Hotel Reviews - TripAdvisor
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