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15 unusual facts about El Greco


Algur H. Meadows

He began acquiring paintings attributed to artists such as El Greco and Goya.

Foros Timis Ston Greco

The title is an allusion to the man who inspired the composition, Dominikos Theotokópoulos (Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος, 1541–1614), the Cretan-born painter and sculptor better known as El Greco.

A regular edition of the album was released worldwide in 1998, with three new tracks and a new title: El Greco.

Illescas, Toledo

Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad: it was built in 1500, there are five paintings by El Greco: La Caridad, San Ildefonso, La Coronacion de la Virgen, La Natividad and La Anunciacion.

Jansson Stegner

He is a figurative painter whose works reference his interest in artists such as Zurbarán, El Greco and Goya and often feature severely exaggerated depictions of his subjects’ limbs.

Joslyn Art Museum

It is the only museum in the state with a comprehensive permanent collection, and although it includes works from Paolo Veronese, El Greco, Titian, among others, its greatest strengths are the outstanding art collections of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries of American and European artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

Kosów Lacki

1964 - A picture by El Greco titled "Saint Francise ecstasy" was found in the presbytery in Kosów Lacki.

Kysa Johnson

In some of these works Johnson used El Greco's paintings of the Immaculate Conception as the compositional framework for some of her works.

Mike Chaplin

He was commissioned to produce a series of handling sheets of watercolour techniques for the Tate Gallery to accompany the Thomas Girtin Exhibition (Summer 2002) and demonstrated painting techniques during the El Greco Exhibition at the National Gallery (2004).

Monforte de Lemos

The school also houses a collection of pictures by artists such as El Greco and Andrea del Sarto.

Olive Rush

Rush considered her major influences to be early Chinese art, Japanese art, and El Greco.

Orgaz

El Greco's painting "The Burial of the Count of Orgaz" features Don Gonzalo Ruíz, native of Toledo and Señor of the town of Orgaz.

Pastrana, Spain

The main street leads to the Iglesia de la Asunción, in whose museum the tapestries are kept, and also a painting by El Greco.

Ričardas Bartkevičius

Looking for his own painting style he admired and drew under the inspiration of El Greco, Tintoretto, and Peter Breigel works.

Vittorio Miele

In 1972 some of his paintings were chosen, together with those of De Chirico, Campigli, Gentilini, Cantore and Greco for a collective exhibition in the "2000" Gallery in Tokyo, the only gallery specialized in the presentation and popularisation of contemporary art in Japan.


Fernando Niño de Guevara

In 1600, El Greco completed a portrait of Fernando Niño de Guevara that is currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Louisine Havemeyer

Her three story manse at Fifth Avenue and East 66th Street in New York was filled with the finest possible examples of works by Manet, El Greco, Rembrandt, and Corot.

Museo di Capodimonte

The first and second floors house the Galleria Nazionale (National Gallery), with paintings from the 13th to the 18th centuries including major works by Simone Martini, Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, Masaccio, Lorenzo Lotto, Giovanni Bellini, Giorgio Vasari, El Greco, Jacob Philipp Hackert and many others.

Portrait of Vincenzo Anastagi

The Portrait of Vincenzo Anastagi is a portrait of Vincenzo Anastagi by El Greco, probably painted between 1571 and 1576, during the artist's time in Rome.

Primitivism

From 1906 to 1909 Pablo Picasso's paintings explored the impact of Primitivism through Iberian sculpture, African sculpture, African traditional masks, and other historical works including the Mannerist paintings of El Greco, resulting in his masterpiece Les Demoiselles D'Avignon and the invention of Cubism.

San Ginés, Madrid

In the Santísimo Cristo Chapel there are artworks by Alonso Cano, Luca Giordano and el Greco.

Walter Keane

The dispute between Margaret and Walter began after release of a news article in which Walter compared himself to Rembrandt and El Greco.