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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.
Paintings by Doménicos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος), called El Greco ("the Greek", 1541 – April 7, 1614), a Greek-born painter who worked in Crete, Italy and Spain
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The anatomy of the human body becomes even more otherworldly in El Greco's mature works; for The Immaculate Conception (El Greco, Toledo) El Greco asked to lengthen the altarpiece itself by another 1.5 ft (0.46 m) "because in this way the form will be perfect and not reduced, which is the worst thing that can happen to a figure". A significant ...
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Last Supper is a 1568 painting by Greek painter sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance Doménikos Theotokópoulos (1541–1614), [3] most widely known as El Greco. [ 4 ] The work is currently collected in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna .
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]
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.