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Where art historian José Camón Aznar had attributed between 787 and 829 paintings to El Greco, Wethey reduced the number to 285 authentic works. Halldor Sœhner, a German researcher of Spanish art, recognized only 137. [7] Both Wethey and Sœhner divided in their catalogues the works in those painted by El Greco and those produced by his ...
El Greco's altarpieces are renowned for their dynamic compositions and startling innovations. Art historian Max Dvořák was the first scholar to connect El Greco's art with Mannerism and Antinaturalism. [34] Modern scholars characterize El Greco's theory as "typically Mannerist" and pinpoint its sources in the Neoplatonism of the Renaissance. [35]
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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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.
According to the guide of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, the painting is “enriched by modern use of colour, the fruit of the lessons the artist had learned in Venice.” [2] El Greco created a sense of a halo around the heads of the saints by providing an intense blue opening in the background clouds. [1]
At the same time, the painting has decorative use and can be considered part of the paintings El Greco and his studio were producing toward the end of his life for the domestic market. [4] These narrative works, including for example Laocoön and Saint Joseph and the Christ Child , use the landmarks of the city as a backdrop to a religious or ...