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El Greco

Also known as Domingo Teotocópul, Domenico Teotocopulo, Domenico Theotokopoulos, Domingo Theotocópuli, Dominikos Greco, Le Grec, Domenico Teotopopuli, Doménikos Zeotokopoulos

Greek artist, painter, sculptor and architect (1541–1614)

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El Greco was a Greek artist who worked as a painter, sculptor, and architect during the Renaissance period (1541–1614). He is historically significant as a major figure in art history whose work across multiple disciplines influenced the development of Western art.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1541?
Died: 1614
Works: 95

Top works

Greco, 1541-1614
Le Greco
El Greco (1541-1614)
Greco
El Greco, a cura di Guido Ballo

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: France
Active from: 1927-02-07
Active to: 2020-09-23

chansonchanson françaisechanson à textejazz

Discography

Juliette Gréco chante ses derniers succès1952
Juliette Gréco chante… – 2e série1953
Duo1956
4ème série1956
New Style1958
N°6 : « 10 ans de chansons »1959
N°71961
N°81963
Les Grandes Chansons1964
Juliette Gréco chante Mac Orlan1964

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 5,514
Total plays: 26,371

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,391x
Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and Control Theory
· 1994 · cited 15,114x
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,443x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,812x
Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
· 2021 · cited 9,789x

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Quotes

“I hold the imitation of colour to be the greatest difficulty of art.”
“..he [[w:Michelangelo|[= Michelangelo] ]] was a good man, but he did not know how to paint.”
“Now, in order to claim some knowledge of painting, Vitruvius speaks of the consideration of the perfect human body and about how good sculptors and painters in order to make it give it a height of ten faces, and I say that according to them they have read and they say that this proportion is based on knowledge of measurement and that it happens that without it it is not possible to have proportion or consideration because those who are not cognizant of this do not count.”
“If Vasari really knew the nature of the Greek style of which he speaks, he would deal with it differently in what he says. He compares it with Giotto, but what Giotto did is simple in comparison, because the Greek style is full of ingenious difficulties [= translation of Greek art historian Nicos Hadjinicolau] / full of deceptive difficulties. [= translation of Spanish art historians Xavier de Salas and Fernando María].”
“I am neither bound to say why I came to this city nor to answer the other questions put to me.”
“..because in this way the form will be perfect and not reduced, which is the worst thing that can happen to a figure.”

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Wikidata facts

Image: El Greco - Portrait of a Man - WGA10554.jpg

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Commons category: El Greco
Commons Creator page: El Greco
Commons gallery: El Greco
name in native language: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος
described at URL: artsandculture.google.com/entity/%2Fm%2F011k6_
date of death: 1614-04-07
pseudonym: Theotocopuli, Dominico
date of birth: 1541-01-01

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Works in European collections

28 objects attributed to El Greco, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Article

Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος, pronounced [ðoˈminikos θeotoˈkopulos]; 1 October 1541 – 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco (Spanish pronunciation: [el ˈɣɾeko]; "The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time. El Greco was a nickname, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters often adding the word Κρής (Krḗs), which means "Cretan" in Ancient Greek.

El Greco was born in the Kingdom of Candia (modern 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 within that tradition before traveling at age 26 to Venice, as other Greek artists had done. In 1570, he moved to Rome, where he opened a workshop and executed a series of works. During his stay in Italy, El Greco enriched his style with elements of Mannerism and of the Venetian Renaissance taken from a number of great artists of the time, notably Tintoretto and Titian. In 1577, he moved to Toledo, Spain, where he lived and worked until his death. In Toledo, El Greco received several major commissions and produced his best-known paintings, such as View of Toledo and Opening of the Fifth Seal.