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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.
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 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 ...
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 ...
Timeline of El Greco's life (1541–7 April 1614) This template is intended for use on El Greco This page was last edited on 24 April 2021, at 18:22 (UTC). Text is ...
Saint Anthony of Padua (El Greco) Saint Bernardino of Siena (El Greco) Saint James the Great (El Greco) Saint John the Evangelist (El Greco, Madrid) Saint Paul (El Greco) Saint Sebastian (El Greco, 1610–1614) Saint Thomas the Apostle (El Greco) Santo Domingo el Antiguo Altarpiece; The Saviour (El Greco)
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (Spanish: El Entierro del Conde de Orgaz) is a 1586 painting by El Greco, a prominent Renaissance painter, sculptor, and architect of Greek origin. Widely considered among his finest works, it illustrates a popular local legend of his time.
The clouds about his head resemble a halo. In the distance can be made out the monastery of El Escorial. The work was once held by the Convento de San José in Malagón, Ciudad Real before passing via several private collections to the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, part of the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, in 1946. The Young collection ...