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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 ...
El Greco's signature on the base of the central candelabrum was discovered in 1983. The discovery of the Dormition led to the attribution of three other signed works of "Doménicos" to El Greco ( Modena Triptych , St. Luke Painting the Virgin and Child , and The Adoration of the Magi ) and then to the acceptance as authentic of more works ...
Palluchini attributed to El Greco a small triptych in the Galleria Estense at Modena on the basis of a signature on the painting on the back of the central panel on the Modena triptych. There was consensus that the triptych was indeed an early work of El Greco and, therefore, Pallucchini's publication became the yardstick for attributions to ...
El Greco's signature appears in the lower-right corner. El Greco's style was known to be more uneven. [ 7 ] That uneven detail that is normally found in his art is in his line work and in the physical location of Toledo in the painting.
The painting is a work which the artist made to hang over his own tomb in the convent of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo. [1] His signature, in Greek, may be seen in the lower left corner. [2] El Greco's remains were transferred to another church after a few years, but the painting remained at Santo Domingo until the 20th century.
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 ...
El Greco's signature, in Greek, may be seen on the paper in the lower left corner. [2] Trompe l'oeil paper label with Greek signature, lower left.
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.