• El Greco's dramatic and expressionistic style was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries but found appreciation in the 20th century.
  • Early Years: Venice and Rome. El Greco was born Domenikos Theotokopoulos on the island of Crete, which was at the time a Venetian possession.
  • Important for his early biography, El Greco, still in Crete, painted his Dormition of the Virgin near the end of his Cretan period, probably before 1567.
  • El Greco's dramatic and expressionistic style was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries but found appreciation in the 20th century.
  • El Greco (1541 – 1614). İspanyol Maniyerist Ressam El Greco 1541’de Yunanistan’da Girit’de doğdu. Gençliğine dair fazla bilgi yoktur.
  • When the artist El Greco captured this view of the Spanish city of Toledo, he painted one of the earliest landscape works in modern Western art.
  • 2 Our List of Important El Greco Paintings. 2.1 The Holy Trinity (c. 1579). 2.2 The Nobleman With his Hand on his Chest (1580).
  • Few artists stick out from the standard tale of western painting more pointedly than El Greco, the great outlier of the late 16th Century.
  • El Greco olarak da bilinen Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Rönesans ve Maniyerizm dönemlerinin etkileyici ressamlarından biri olarak tarihteki yerini almıştır.
  • Ölümünün ardından El Greco şeklini alacak El Gricgo (Yunan) ismiyle Theotokopoulos, yaşamı boyunca eserlerini Yunan harfleriyle ve tam âdıylâ imzalamış.