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Doménikos Theotokópoulos
GREEK TEAM
El GRECO
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El Greco or Doménikos Theotokópoulos (1541 – 1614)
was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance
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"El Greco" (The Greek) was a nickname, a reference to his national Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters,
Δομήνικος
Θεοτοκόπουλος
(Doménikos Theotokópoulos), often adding the word Κρής "Cretan".
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Early years in Greece He was born in Candia, Crete, which
was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, and the center of Post-Byzantine art. He trained and became a master in Crete before travelling at age 26 to Venice, as many other Greek artists .
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Early Work-Cretan period
1565-1566 Dormition of the Virgin, Holy Cathedral of the Dormition of the Virgin, Hermoupolis, Syros, Greece.
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Venice About 1566, El Greco Went to Venice
where he remained until 1570. He was employed in the workshop of
Titian and was also strongly influenced by Tintoretto both masters of the high Renaissance.
Early Venetian paintings such as “Christ healing the blind man” demonstrated his Assimilation of Tintoretto’s figural compositions and use of deep spatial recesses.
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Christ Healing the Blind, by El Greco
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Christ Healing the Blind Man. 1560s. Oil on panel. Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany
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Rome In 1570, El Greco moved to Rome,
where he executed a series of works strongly marked by his Venetian apprenticeship.
During his stay in Italy, El Greco enriched his style with elements of Mannerism and of the Venetian Renaissance.
Jacopo Tintoretto
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Two of El Greco’s paintings included in Orsini’s collection
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El Greco’s Allegory of the Holy League
said to be heavily influenced by Michelangelo
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Other paintings by El Greco during his time in Italy
El Greco painting of St John The Evangelist And St Francis
Christ driving the traders from the temple - El Greco
Italian Annunciation painting by El Greco
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Spain
In 1577, El Greco migrated to Madrid, then to Toledo, where he produced his mature works.
He arrived in Toledo by July 1577, and signed contracts for a group of paintings that was to adorn the church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo and for the renowned El Espolio.
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View of Toledo
c. 1597, Oil on canvas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York
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Toledo
By September 1579 he had completed nine paintings for Santo Domingo, including The Trinity and The Assumption of the Virgin
He did manage to secure two important commissions from the monarch: Allegory of the Holy League and Martyrdom of St. Maurice
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Assumption of the Virgin. 1577-1579. Oil on canvas. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
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The end During the course of the execution of a
commission for the Hospital Tavera , El Greco fell seriously ill, and a month later, on 7 April 1614, he died.
A few days earlier, on 31 March, he had directed that his son should have the power to make his will.
Two Greeks, friends of the painter, witnessed this last will and , he was buried in the Church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo , aged 73.
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The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
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The Disrobing of Christ
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Pieta,
1587-97,
Oil on canvas,
Stavros Niarchos Collection, Paris
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The Resurrection
1584-1594. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
El Greco’s famous works
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El Greco. Mary Magdalen in Penitence. c.
1577. Oil on canvas. Worcester Art
Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
His artistic roots are diverse: he traveled between Greece, Venice, Rome, and Spain (settling in Toledo). The Christian doctrines of Spain made a crucial impact on his approach to painting, and his art represents a blend of passion and restraint, religious fervor and Neo-Platonism, influenced by the mysticism of the Counter-Reformation.
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Baptism of Christ 1597-1600 Oil on canvas, 350 x 144 cm; Museo del Prado, Madrid
The Holy Trinity
1577 Oil on canvas, 300 x
179 cm (118 1/8 x 70 1/2");
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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The statue of Laocoön and His Sons, also called the Laocoön Group
shows the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons being strangled by sea serpents.
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St.Peter in Tears. c. 1580-1585. Oil on canvas. The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Couty Durham, UK
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Christ Carrying the Cross. c. 1590-1595. Oil on canvas. Oscar B. Cintas Foundation, NY, USA
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Christ on the Cross with Landscapes. c. 1605-1610. Oil on canvas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA
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El Greco - Self Portrait as Saint Luke c1604 (one of the Portraits of the Apostles in the Sacristy of Toledo Cathedral)
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