El GRECO ?

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El GRECO ?

• BY Lucía del Pino

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1. Biography of Greco

• Domenikos Theotokopoulos, (Candia, 1541 - Toledo,
  1614), known as El Greco ("the Greek"), The first
  he was a late Renaissance painter who developed a
  very personal style in his mature works.
• Until the 26 years he lived in Crete, where
  he was a popular teacher posbizantino style icons
  in force in the island. After he lived ten years
  in Italy, where the Renaissance became first
  painter in Venice,
• fully assuming the style of Titian and
• Tintoretto, and then in Rome, studying
• Michelangelo's mannerism. In 1577 he
• settled in Toledo, where he lived and
• worked the rest of his life.

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2. Importance of El Greco

• El Greco is regarded as one of the
• great geniuses of world art, and
• great figure painting in Spain in the
• late XVI century. His form began to be
• claimed in the Peninsula with the study
• of his work published in 1808 by
• Cossio, but especially by the
• interest expressed by him,
• expressionists and fauves
• late XIX century.
• It was a Mannerist painter who
• conducted such a great work not
• created school. He was one of
• the greatest portraitists of the story.

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3. Some works of the Greco

• it is a oil on canvas, it painted in mannerist
• style by El Greco between the years
• 1586 and 1588. It was made
• for the parish of Santo Tomé
• in Toledo, Spain, and is preserved
• in this place. It is considered
• one of the best
• and most admired works
• of the author.

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This work is painted at tempo, it painted shortly
after the arrival of El Greco in Rome. El Greco
used similar tones to the Venetian painters of
the Renaissance.
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4.Video

• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vIeEWqALhn8k
• 5.Personal opinion
• In my opinion, I like the techniques used in the
  renaissance style, he is a very important painter
  in our country, most of his works are related to
  the religious theme, some of his works are very
  curious.

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Webgraphy

• http//es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_GrecoBiograf.C3.A
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• http//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/FileEl_Greco_02
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• http//es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedad_(El_Greco)
• https//www.google.es/search?qelgrecosourcelnm
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• THE END.