El greco real name
Interesting facts about el greco!
EL GRECO also known as Domenicos Theotokopoulos
1541-1614
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
Visionary Greek Mannerist Painter
Stylistically influenced by the following painters; - Titian, Tintoretto
Education - studied under Titian
Cause of Death - drowning
Mannerist painting example - Saint Martin and the Beggar, c.
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1597, by El Greco
In the works that introduced him to Spain, Christ Stripped of His Garments on Calvary, El Greco has freed himself from Titian, and now seems as a savage entering the world of art with impetuous primeval power.
He displays his a collection of Herculean figures composed of real flesh and blood, of barbaric bone and marrow. The same quality gives his painting of the Holy Trinity a primeval, brutal grandeur. His picture in the church of San Tome in Toledo, in which members of a knightly order solemnly attend the funeral of count Orgaz, whose corpse is lowered into a grave by
