Portrait of a man el greco biography
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Portrait of a man el greco biography
El Greco (1541 – 1614) Portrait of a Man (presumed self-portrait of El Greco, c. 1595–1600) in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
On April 7, 1614, Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance Doménikos Theotokópoulos, widely known as El Greco, passed away.
A major master of Spanish Mannerism and the fading Renaissance, he painted mainly pictures with religious themes and portraits. His painting developed away from naturalism toward an individual style, as he attempted to find a new expression for spiritual phenomena, and in his later work increasingly referred back to his origins as an icon painter.
El Greco is regarded as a precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism.
“I hold the imitation of color to be the greatest difficulty of art.”
— El Greco, from notes of the painter in one of his commentaries, quoted in [1]
From Domenikos Theotokopoulos…
Domenikos Theotokopoulos, called ‘El Greco’, was born in 15