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Bookmark or Share- El Greco: An Artist's Odyssey - National Gallery of ArtEl Greco (1541 – 1614) was born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Crete. He began his career as a painter of icons for Byzantine churches. Moving to Italy and then to Spain, his work fused lessons learned from the glories of Byzantium with the ravishing color of Venetian art and the elegant artificialities of Roman mannerism. Settling in Toledo, he ...
- El Greco - 169 artworks - painting - WikiArt.orgEl Greco's older brother, Manoússos Theotokópoulos (1531 – 13 December 1604), was a wealthy merchant and spent the last years of his life (1603–1604) in El Greco's Toledo home. El Greco received his initial training as an icon painter of the Cretan school, a leading center of post-Byzantine art.
- An Exploration of El Greco's Famous Paintings - artincontext.orgEl Greco’s signature from his painting St. Francis Kneeling in Meditation (c. 1595-1600); Sailko, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. El Greco was the archetypal Spaniard – an artist of the soul who shunned materialist society in favor of pursuing life’s innermost spiritual creations.
- El Greco - WikipediaEl Greco's older brother, Manoússos Theotokópoulos (1531–1604), was a wealthy merchant and spent the last years of his life (1603–1604) in El Greco's Toledo home. El Greco received his initial training as an icon painter of the Cretan school, a leading center of post-Byzantine art.
- El Greco - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libreDoménikos Theotokópoulos (en griego Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος; en italiano y español como Dominico Greco; Candia, 1 de octubre de 1541- Toledo, 7 de abril de 1614), conocido como el Greco (« el griego »), a fue un pintor cretense del final del Renacimiento que desarrolló un estilo muy personal en sus obras de madurez.
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