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El Greco (1541–1614) was a Cretan-born painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. El Greco left his birthplace for Venice in 1567, never to return. El Greco's three years in Venice profoundly influenced his style. In 1577, he emigrated to Toledo, Spain, where he lived and worked until the end of his life.
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Agony in the Garden (El Greco, London) Allegory of the Camaldolese Order; Annunciation (El Greco, Illescas) Annunciation (El Greco, Madrid) Annunciation (El Greco, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza) Annunciation (El Greco, São Paulo Museum of Art) Annunciation (El Greco, Sigüenza) The Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Hyacinth; Assumption of the ...
The same scholar believes that in El Greco's mature works "the devotional intensity of mood reflects the religious spirit of Roman Catholic Spain in the period of the Counter-Reformation". [1] El Greco often produces an open pipe between Earth and Heaven in his paintings. The Annunciation is one example of this spiritual conduit being present ...
In the earlier work, El Greco defies the conventional Western pictorial composition; instead of causing the viewer's glance to travel from right to left, as was the usual line of sight, Saint John is positioned in the bottom-left corner of the painting, struck by the vision of the Madonna floating above him. [7]
Saint Louis is a 1592–1595 painting by El Greco, painted during his time in Toledo.It is now in the Louvre in Paris.. It shows Louis IX of France wearing 16th-century armour and a crown and holding his family symbol of a fleur de lys and the traditional sceptre of the kings of France.
Concert of Angels is a work of El Greco in oil on canvas from 1608, during his last period in Toledo, Spain.It is exhibited at the National Gallery in Athens.. Created at the end of his life, art historians have disputed whether this painting is a finished work or part of a working study for a commission of the Annunciation for the chapel of the Hospital de Tavera.
Saint Sebastian, or Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian is an autograph work by the famed artist Doménikos Theotokópoulos, commonly known as El Greco.It shows the Martyred Saint in an atypical kneeling posture which has led some scholars to believe it to be a compositional quotation of various works by other great masters whom the artist admired.