El Greco
Greek artist, painter, sculptor and architect, (1541–1614)
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Date of birth | 1 October 1541 Heraklion (Kingdom of Candia) | ||||
Date of death | 7 April 1614 Toledo (Crown of Castile) | ||||
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El Greco (medieval Castilian for "the Greek"), a Greek-Spanish painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish school, is best known. He was a painter in Crete, where he was born, and first trained as a Christian icon painter. At the age of twenty-six, he journeyed to Venice and to Rome where he studied under Titian. In 1577 he emigrated to Toledo — at the time the ecclesiastical capital of Spain — where he produced his mature works, and led a successful career as a painter of altarpieces and portraits. Many of El Greco's works are on display at Madrid's Museo del Prado. |
Main gallery: Paintings by El Greco.
Works
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Dormition of the Virgin
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St. Luke painting the Virgin
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The Entombment
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, Old Masters GalleryChrist Healing the Blind
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, Galleria estense (Modena)Modena Triptych
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The Baptism of Christ
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Mount Sinai
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The Last Supper
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Allegory of the victory at Lepanto
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The Adoration of the Shepherds
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View of Toledo
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The Resurrection
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The Descent of the Holy Spirit
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Burial of Count Orgaz
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Penitent Mary Magdalene
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Penitent Mary Magdalene
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Christ on the Cross
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Christ on the Cross
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The Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane
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The Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane
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Healing of blinds
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Christ driving the Traders from the Temple
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Head of Christ
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The Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane
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The Last Supper
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The Saviour of the world
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Holy Trinity
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The Disrobing of Chris
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Disrobing of Christ
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Disrobing of Christ
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Holy Family with St. Anne
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The Holy Family
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The Holy Family
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St. Francis and Brother Leo meditating on death
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Saint Jerome as Cardinal
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St. Ildephonsus of Toledo
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Saint James the Great
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Saint John the Evangelist
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St. Martin and the Beggar
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The Wedding at Cana
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Bearing of the Cross
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Laocoön
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Mount Sinai
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Antonio de Covarrubias y Leiva
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Don Rodrigo Vasquez
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Fray Hortensio Félix Paravicino
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Fernando Niño de Guevara
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Fernando Niño de Guevara
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Pope Pius V
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Portrait of a Gentleman
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Saint Louis, King of France, and a Page
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Madonna of Mercy
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Saint Francis of Assisi receives the Stigmata
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The Baptism of Christ
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Dream of Philip II
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Christ driving the Traders from the Temple
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Vision of St. Ildephonsus of Toledo
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Madonna and Child
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circa 1580 , oil on canvas , 102 × 75 cm (40.1 × 29.5 in), Siedlce, Muzeum Diecezjalne w Siedlcach -
Allegory with a Boy Lighting a Candle in the Company of an Ape and a Fool (Fábula)
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Head of an Apostle
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The Virgin from The Holy Family