EL CRECO

1563-1567CRETAN PERIOD POST BYZANTINE STYLEFLAT SYMBOLIC WORLD OF BYZANTINE ICONS

1567-76 ITALIAN PERIOD MOVES TO VENICE AND ROME AND BACK TO VENICEINFLUENCE OF ITALIAN PAINTERS AND STYLE

1576-1616 SPANISH PERIOD REJECTED BY CING PHILLIP II IN MADRID MOVES TO TOLEDO AND EXPERIENCES SUCCESS

El Greco is one of the few old master painters who enjoys widespread popularity

El Greco was born in 1541,in Crete, which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, and the center of Post-Byzantine art.

DOMINIKOS Theotokopoulos (El Greco) Dormition of the Virgin. Prior to 1567

Two certain examples survive, El Greco received his initial training as an icon painter of the Cretan school,

He moved to Venice in 1567 (Crete was a Venetian territory).

During his stay in Italy, El Greco enriched his style with elements of Mannerism and of the Venetian Renaissance

The Modena Triptych is 1568 triptych (three panel painting) by the artist El Greco, who was also known as Doménikos Theotokópoulos.

From Venice, El Greco moved to Rome, where he worked from 1570 to 1576.

Christ Driving The Traders From The Temple 1600

The Miracle of Christ Healing the Blind, El Greco

El Greco was a remarkable portraitist

the naturalism characterized his portraits

For Picasso, as for so many later admirers, El Greco was a painter of the spirit.

He moved in Spain in 1576.

These are among El Greco's most ambitious masterpieces.

It is one ofEl Greco's most famous works

The Disrobing of Christ or El Expolio (Latin: Exspolĭum) is a painting begun in the summer of 1577 and completed in the spring of 1579 for the High Altar of the sacristy of the Cathedral of Toledo

El Greco's most celebrated painting, The Burial of Count Orgaz,

It honors a long-dead benefactor, at whose funeral Saints Stephen and Augustine were seen to miraculously appear to assist in the burial. The picture depicts this miracle as well as the count's soul being received into Paradise.

one of the most celebrated landscapes in Western art—the View of Toledo

View and Plan of Toledo

"Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος (Doménicos Theotocópoulos) ἐποίει." The words El Greco used to sign his paintings. El Greco appended after his name the word "epoiei" (ἐποίει, "he made it"). In The Assumption the painter used the word "deixas" (δείξας, "he displayed it") instead of "epoiei".

Foros Timis Ston Greco (Φόρος Τιμής Στον Γκρέκο, lit. A Tribute to El Greco) is a classical album by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis (as Vangelis Papathanassiou/Βαγγέλης Παπαθανασίου).

What seems to have attracted him to El Greco was the latter's courage to be different, his genius, pessimism , denial of hope and fear .

He frequently refers to the famous El Greco painting Toledo in Storm (generally known as View of Toledo). He seems attracted to the surrealistic distortion of form in El Greco's work, and this paintings dark and elongated features emphasize the general pessimistic sense of human existence which Kazantzakis has.