Ayrıca bakınız
- Early Years: Venice and Rome. El Greco was born Domenikos Theotokopoulos on the island of Crete, which was at the time a Venetian possession.
- El Greco was born in the Kingdom of Candia (modern Crete), which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, Italy, and the center of Post-Byzantine art.
- El Greco olarak da bilinen Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Rönesans ve Maniyerizm dönemlerinin etkileyici ressamlarından biri olarak tarihteki yerini almıştır.
- Few artists stick out from the standard tale of western painting more pointedly than El Greco, the great outlier of the late 16th Century.
- Her zaman resimlerini Yunan harfleriyle tam ismiyle imzaladığı için, El Greco ismi derinden gurur duyduğu geçmişi vurguladı.
- Born in the mid-sixteenth century, Domenicos Theotokopoulos would rise to fame as the artist known simply as El Greco (‘The Greek’).
- 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.
- El Greco is usually classified as a Spanish artist, although he was born in Candia, Crete. He had one of the most unconventional career paths of any artist of his era.
- El Greco is probably one of the most well known artists of his time, and still to this day, over 500 years after his death.
- El Greco's dramatic and expressionistic style was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries but found appreciation in the 20th century.
