El Greco

El Greco is a well-known Greek artist whose work during the Spanish Renaissance made him famous. Born 1541 in Crete, El Greco eventually made his way to Venice where he found himself under the instruction of Titian (El Greco). After moving to Toledo, Spain at age thirty-five, he continued his career as an artist until his death. Some of his works include The Holy Trinity, The Assumption of the Virgin, and The Burial of Count of Orgaz (El Greco - The Complete Works). All of these paintings show his

neighbouring countries. A Greek artists by the name of El Greco (Greek name: Domenikos Theotokopoulos) has been known to be titled as “the greatest Spanish painter of the era”, although he was not from Spanish heritage. He was born in Crete, Greece in 1567 and spent approximately half of his life traveling and apprenticing in Italy. El Greco had traveled to Rome, where he was influenced by the Florentine and Roman Mannerism techniques. As El Greco traveled through Italy he worked alongside the famous

the Myth of El Greco” discusses the aftermath of the bloody Spanish-American war resulting in “El Desastre del ’98” in Spain which rocked the national psyche into a period of cultural dissonance. Following the Disaster, the nation quickly found itself in an agitated period of conflicting ideas and divisive discourses, specifically between Madrid and Catalonia. Essentially, class divisions, regional differences, and this lack of national identity was what gave way to the “Myth of El Greco” in fin-de-sïecle

El Greco The Agony In the Garden, a mannerist style of art by EL Greco, proclaims a sense of spiritual power of religious faith which accomplishes El Greco’s aim to move his audience. El Greco was born on the island of Crete and lived from 1541 to 1614. He represented the most characteristic figure of Spanish Mannerism. El Greco was influenced by and became acquainted with the art of Titian and Jacopo Bassano in Venice where he studied in 1566. In addition to visiting Italy, El Greco

otherwise known as El Greco to us was a painter born in the year 1591 in Heraklion, Crete which is one the largest islands owned by Greece as of today. El Greco did go on to merry but there was little to know information of his first wife and who she was. He would go on to have one child a son Jorge Manuel Theotocopuli, whom he is believed to have had with a Spanish woman while living in Toledo in Spain. His son who also grow up and followed in his dad’s footsteps and became a painter. Greco which many people

El Greco (“The Greek”), also known as Domenicos Theotocopulos, was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. El Greco was born in Crete in 1541, which was then a part of the Republic of Venice, and the center of Post-Byzantine art. He had trained and become a master within that tradition and an icon painter. Among his great artworks, I would like to draw attention to “Pietà (The Lamentation of Christ)”, an oil painting. El Greco had painted this masterpiece about c.1565-70 in

Domenikos Theotokopoulos or better known as El Greco, was born in Crete, Greece in 1514. El Greco was formally trained as an icon painter by Titian (Christiansen, El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (1541–1614).” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. 2004), who was a renowned painter during the 16th century. He lived most of his life in Spain but often visited Crete (Editors 2014). The combination of the two environments is captured in his paintings. Being surrounded Catholicism, he based many of

also known as El Greco was born in Candia, Crete, in 1541. He moved to Venice in 1567 because Crete was Venetian territory. In Venice, he learned the elements of Renaissance painting. He learned how to use perspective, figural construction, and the ability to stage elaborate narratives. Domenikos Theotokopoulos received the name El Greco which means “The Greek” when he lived in italy because of his greek descent. One of his trademarks is signing his paintings in greek letters. El Greco was rumored

Our Moving Fate: A Study of El Greco’s Assumption of the Virgin El Greco painted his “Assumption of the Virgin” in 1577 for the convent of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo, Spain. Born in Greece as Domenikos Theotocopoulos, (his nickname translates from Spanish into “The Greek”), El Greco was the top artist of the Spanish School, and was commissioned to paint “Assumption” to adorn the convent’s altar. The painting is a daunting size—over six feet wide and twice as tall—surrounded

centuries of world changes. The first artist that will be analyzed is El Greco from Mannerism and the second one is Gustave Courbet, a representative of Realism. An interesting fact about these two artist is that even though they lived in different epochs they have chosen the same theme for one of their paintings and this allows to a more detailed comparison in order to see how the historical context and the movements