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Christos Navrozidis (Greek: Χρήστος Ναβροζίδης, born 1993), known as El Greco, is a Greek freestyle wrestler and street fighter. [3] He has competed in competitions of freestyle wrestling , beach wrestling , bare-knuckle MMA [ 4 ] and organized street fights by "King of the Streets" (K.O.T.S.).
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.
El Greco was a nickname, [a] and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters often adding the word Κρής (Krḗs), which means "Cretan" in Ancient Greek. 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 ...
Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Francis is a c.1600 oil on canvas painting by the artist El Greco, now in the Uffizi. John is accompanied by an eagle (bottom left) and holds a gold chalice containing his head. Both saints are barefoot. The artist's signature Dominicos Théotokopulos epoiese is on a rock in the centre.
During the operation of the Spanish Museum in Paris, El Greco was admired as the ideal romantic hero and all the romantic stereotypes (the gifted, the misunderstood, the marginal, the mad, the one who lost his reason because of the scorn of his contemporaries) were projected onto his life. [6] The myth of El Greco's madness came in two versions.
Consequently, El Greco remained in Toledo for the rest of his life, where he was well-received by his contemporaries such as the Spanish preacher and poet Hortensio Félix Paravicino, who remarked that "Crete gave him life and the painter's craft, Toledo a better homeland, where through death he began to achieve eternal life". [3]
Unconfirmed portrait of Cervantes commonly said to have been painted by Juan de Jáuregui. [note 1]The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest (also known as The Gentleman with His Hand at His Breast [1] or Gentleman with his Hand on his Chest) (Spanish: El caballero de la mano en el pecho) [2] is an oil painting by El Greco, one of the earliest works painted by the artist in Spain.
According to Foundoulaki, "the dialogue Picasso inaugurated with El Greco in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, by means of Cézanne, is carried on in Cubism". [11] Richardson sees the Apocalypse in El Greco's Opening of the Fifth Seal as the catalyst which showed Picasso how to harness the spiritual energy of a great religious artist to his own ...