El GRECO

BY: Lucía del Pino

1. Biography of Greco: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.

2. Importance of El Greco: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.

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.

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.

4.Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeEWqALhn8k

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.

Webgraphy :http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Greco#Biograf.C3.ADahttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:El_Greco_020.jpghttp://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedad_(El_Greco)https://www.google.es/search?q=el+greco&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ybwYU8GCCou6ygOB0ID4Aw&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=933

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