Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος, IPA: [ðoˈminikos θeotoˈkopulos]; 1 October 1541 – 7 April 1614), [2] most widely known as El Greco (Spanish pronunciation: [el ˈɡɾeko]; "The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, regarded as one of the greatest ...

2025年4月10日 · El Greco was a master of Spanish painting, whose highly individual dramatic and expressionistic style met with the puzzlement of his contemporaries but gained newfound appreciation in the 20th century.

El Greco is best known for his tortuously elongated figures painted in phantasmagorical pigmentation, which almost resembled chalk with its blunt vividness.

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.

2014年4月2日 · El Greco was a Greek artist whose painting and sculpture helped define the Spanish Renaissance and influence various movements to come.

Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος [ðoˈminikos θeotoˈkopulos]; 1541 – 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance.

2004年10月1日 · 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.

2025年4月7日 · El Greco’s “Portrait of an Old Man,” believed to be a self-portrait, 1595. Credit: Public Domain. The Greek painter El Greco (October 1, 1541 – April 7, 1614) is one of the best known artists in the entire history of Western art, and his unique, romantic and awe-inspiring works have influenced a great number of painters over the past five centuries.

El Greco’s commission was a particularly ambitious one. In addition to painting the eight canvases, the artist also designed the gilded wooden retables and made the five sculptures adorning the ...

2025年4月10日 · Professor of the History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1946–72. Author of Colonial Architecture and Sculpture in Peru; El Greco and His School; The Complete Paintings of Titian.