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, 2014 Domenikos Theotokopoulos (c. 1541–1614), known as El Greco, was born on the Greek island of Crete, but he is most renowned for his long career in Spain. El Greco began his professional life as a successful icon painter and, in the first of many journeys, moved from Crete to Venice in 1567 or 1568. There, he remade his art on the examples of Renaissance
Laura R. Bass, Tanya J. Tiffany
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Choice Reviews Online, 2008 El Greco (1541-1614) The paintings of the artist El Greco are among the most distinctive works of the early modern period. His paintings marked a radical departure from the naturalism and careful modeling of the Renaissance, and as result were ignored
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“El Greco at Home” and “Address on the Occasion of the Monument to El Greco”
Art in Translation, 2015AbstractThis translation comprises two short articles by Santiago Rusinol, originally published as newspaper articles in Spanish and Catalan in 1894 and 1897. The first article conveys the enthusiasm and excitement that Rusinol and his friends, especially Zuloaga, felt about the acquisition of two paintings by El Greco (St. Peter, St.
Santiago Rusiñol, Jeremy Roe
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The Art Bulletin, 1930
Twenty years ago, when I published the first edition of my History of Art, I already worried about the national character of El Greco's art and personality. I said there that Paravicini, the friend of El Greco, whose wonderful portrait is now in the Museum of Fine Arts at Boston, in a sonnet to the painter said: “Crete gave him life, Toledo, his ...
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Twenty years ago, when I published the first edition of my History of Art, I already worried about the national character of El Greco's art and personality. I said there that Paravicini, the friend of El Greco, whose wonderful portrait is now in the Museum of Fine Arts at Boston, in a sonnet to the painter said: “Crete gave him life, Toledo, his ...
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The Art Bulletin, 1929
THE present tendency of the Spaniards to consider El Greco an integral part of the history of Spanish painting has encouraged me to bring together here the evidence against this point of view.
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THE present tendency of the Spaniards to consider El Greco an integral part of the history of Spanish painting has encouraged me to bring together here the evidence against this point of view.
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Leonardo, 2002
Why did El Greco (1541–1614) paint such elongated human figures? It has been suggested that he suffered from astigmatism. This is an optical defect of the frontal surface of the eyeball, which if over-corrected by a spectacle lens, could have optically stretched his retinal images horizontally, causing him to paint tall, thin objects that looked normal
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Why did El Greco (1541–1614) paint such elongated human figures? It has been suggested that he suffered from astigmatism. This is an optical defect of the frontal surface of the eyeball, which if over-corrected by a spectacle lens, could have optically stretched his retinal images horizontally, causing him to paint tall, thin objects that looked normal
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