The Italians called him El Greco, meaning the Greek ... Greco saw himself as the artist of the future, who would carry the Renaissance forward Greco struggled in Venice for three years, then ...

Born Domenikos Theotokopoulos, El Greco came from Crete to Toledo, Spain, via Italy. A leading light of the Spanish Renaissance, he was the subject of a magnificent show I saw last year at the ...

In the seafaring lands of Spain and Portugal, we'll learn how plunder and trade funded art from lacy Manueline cloisters to the mystical beauty of El Greco. Following the Renaissance north ...

Spain’s Prado Museum is mounting an exhibit that brings together the works the Greek painter Doménikos Theotokópoulos, better known as El Greco, completed for the Monastery of Santo Domingo el ...

the artist who came to be known as El Greco was a proto-Modernist painter who managed to carve out a distinct career for himself in the midst of the Italian Renaissance, vying for commissions ...

At this point, the obvious eccentricities of his art, so contrary to the ideals of the High Renaissance, cease to be drawbacks. That said, I am not sure whether it’s useful to present El Greco ...

For though El Greco’s mesmerizing oeuvre stands at a ... course from medieval icon-painting to the glories of the Italian Renaissance and the Golden Age of Spanish painting to the emergence ...

El Greco’s famous landscape ‘View of Toledo’ celebrates his adopted city and the sky above it El Greco’s real name was Domenikos Theotokopoulos. He was born in Crete (“el Greco” is ...

The Mannerist movement, named after the Italian word for “style,” emphasized artists’ technical virtuosity over the objective naturalism of the High Renaissance. El Greco is remembered as ...