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    El Greco was a renowned Greek painter, sculptor and architect during the Spanish Renaissance. He was born in Crete in 1541 and trained in post-Byzantine art before moving to Venice and then Rome, where he was influenced by mannerism and Renaissance styles. In 1577, he settled in Toledo, Spain, where he produced many of his most famous works, known for elongated figures and dramatic use of color. His unconventional style was misunderstood by his contemporaries but anticipated expressionism and cubism. Today El Greco is considered a uniquely individual artist who blended Byzantine and Western techniques.

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    El Greco was a renowned Greek painter, sculptor and architect during the Spanish Renaissance. He was born in Crete in 1541 and trained in post-Byzantine art before moving to Venice and then Rome, where he was influenced by mannerism and Renaissance styles. In 1577, he settled in Toledo, Spain, where he produced many of his most famous works, known for elongated figures and dramatic use of color. His unconventional style was misunderstood by his contemporaries but anticipated expressionism and cubism. Today El Greco is considered a uniquely individual artist who blended Byzantine and Western techniques.

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    El Greco was a renowned Greek painter, sculptor and architect during the Spanish Renaissance. He was born in Crete in 1541 and trained in post-Byzantine art before moving to Venice and then Rome, where he was influenced by mannerism and Renaissance styles. In 1577, he settled in Toledo, Spain, where he produced many of his most famous works, known for elongated figures and dramatic use of color. His unconventional style was misunderstood by his contemporaries but anticipated expressionism and cubism. Today El Greco is considered a uniquely individual artist who blended Byzantine and Western techniques.

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    El Greco was a renowned Greek painter, sculptor and architect during the Spanish Renaissance. He was born in Crete in 1541 and trained in post-Byzantine art before moving to Venice and then Rome, where he was influenced by mannerism and Renaissance styles. In 1577, he settled in Toledo, Spain, where he produced many of his most famous works, known for elongated figures and dramatic use of color. His unconventional style was misunderstood by his contemporaries but anticipated expressionism and cubism. Today El Greco is considered a uniquely individual artist who blended Byzantine and Western techniques.

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    El Greco
    Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος
    Θεοτοκόπουλος [ðoˈminikos θeotoˈkopulos]; 1 October 1541 –
    El Greco
    7 April 1614),[2] most widely known as El Greco ("The
    Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the
    Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" was a nickname,[a][b] and the
    artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in
    Greek letters, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος (Domḗnikos
    Theotokópoulos), often adding the word Κρής (Krḗs), which
    means Cretan.

    El Greco was born in the Kingdom of Candia (modern Crete),


    which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, Italy,
    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.[6] In 1570, he moved
    Portrait of a Man (presumed self-
    to Rome, where he opened a workshop and executed a series of
    works. During his stay in Italy, El Greco enriched his style with portrait of El Greco, c. 1595–1600)
    elements of Mannerism and of the Venetian Renaissance taken in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
    from a number of great artists of the time, notably Tintoretto. York City[1]
    In 1577, he moved to Toledo, Spain, where he lived and worked Born Doménikos
    until his death. In Toledo, El Greco received several major Theotokópoulos
    commissions and produced his best-known paintings, such as 1 October 1541
    View of Toledo and Opening of the Fifth Seal.
    either Fodele or
    El Greco's dramatic and expressionistic style was met with Candia, Crete
    puzzlement by his contemporaries but found appreciation by Died 7 April 1614
    the 20th century. El Greco is regarded as a precursor of both (aged 72)
    Expressionism and Cubism, while his personality and works Toledo, Spain
    were a source of inspiration for poets and writers such as
    Rainer Maria Rilke and Nikos Kazantzakis. El Greco has been Nationality Venetian-Greek and
    characterized by modern scholars as an artist so individual Spanish
    that he belongs to no conventional school.[3] He is best known Known for Painting, sculpture
    for tortuously elongated figures and often fantastic or and architecture
    phantasmagorical pigmentation, marrying Byzantine
    [7] Notable work El Expolio
    traditions with those of Western painting.
    (1577–1579)
    The Assumption of
    the Virgin
    Contents (1577–1579)
    The Burial of the
    Life
    Count of Orgaz
    Early years and family
    (1586–1588)
    Italy
    View of Toledo

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