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El Greco
Doménikos Theotokópoulos, most widely known as El Greco, 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, which means "Cretan" in Ancient Greek.
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culture · Greek painter of the Spanish Renaissance (1541–1614) · painter · sculptor · architect · architectural drafter · printmaker · also El Greco, Domingo Teotocópul, Domenico Teotocopulo, Domenico Theotokopoulos, Domingo Theotocópuli, Dominikos Greco
Born 1 October 1541 · Died 7 April 1614 · Q301
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2026· 1 entry
2022· 1 entry
The Financial Times: Picasso and El Greco review: kindred spirits separated by centuries
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2020· 2 entries
Smithsonian Magazine: A History of El Greco’s Masterful—and Often Litigious—Artistic Career
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Art critic Sebastian Smee added that: "Without El Greco, Picasso’s early Blue and Rose periods are hard to imagine"
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2015· 1 entry
El Greco's Portrait of a Gentleman, which had been looted by the Nazis from German Jewish art collector Julius Priester in 1944, was returned to his heirs after it surfaced at an auction with a fake provenance
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2014· 2 entries
Observer: Two Powerful Men on Fifth Avenue: El Greco’s Face-Off at The Frick
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The Financial Times: ‘El Greco and Modern Painting’
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2010· 1 entry
The heirs of the Baron Mor Lipot Herzog, a Jewish Hungarian art collector who had been looted by the Nazis, filed a restitution claim for El Greco's The Agony in the Garden
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2009· 1 entry
Which contains various figures from El Greco's paintings
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2003· 1 entry
Japanese art historian Yasunari Kitaura noted that El Greco is considered "one of the greatest painters ever in the history of universal art"
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1998· 1 entry
The Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis published El Greco, a symphonic album inspired by the artist
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1962· 1 entry
Produced a reactive catalogue raisonné with a greatly reduced corpus of materials
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1938· 1 entry
Wrote "I do not doubt that he was one of the greatest painters that ever lived
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1937· 1 entry
A highly influential study by art historian Rodolfo Pallucchini had the effect of greatly increasing the number of works accepted to be by El Greco
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1930· 1 entry
Spanish art historian and architect José Pijoán wrote that El Greco was "greatest master that Spain and the world have had" and considered him the "demigod of the advanced schools" because of his revolutionary approach t
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1928· 1 entry
How El Greco might end up being as highly regarded as Raphael in the future
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1925· 1 entry
El Greco was everywhere regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time, having achieved the high honor of a classification and is called the "supreme example of the baroque in painting"
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1920· 1 entry
El Greco was the archetypal genius who did as he thought best "with complete indifference to what effect the right expression might have on the public"
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1912· 2 entries
El Greco typified that mystical inner construction that it was the task of their generation to rediscover
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That El Greco was "a great man, an inconceivably great genius", defending him with such ardor that it even led him to disparage Velázquez
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1910· 1 entry
His experiences in Spanische Reise (Spanish Journey, published in English in 1926), the book which widely established El Greco as a great painter of the past "outside a somewhat narrow circle"
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1908· 1 entry
Spanish art historian Manuel Bartolomé Cossío published the first comprehensive catalogue of El Greco's works; in this book El Greco was presented as the founder of the Spanish School
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1903· 1 entry
That El Greco "was two centuries ahead of his time; that is why painters, Manet among them, thought so much of him"
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1614· 1 entry
Died 1614-04-07.
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1541· 1 entry
Born 1541-10-01.
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