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![''Adoration of the Magi'', 1568, [[Museo Soumaya]], [[Mexico City]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/7222 Adoración de los Reyes Magos.jpg?width=200 "''Adoration of the Magi'', 1568, [[Museo Soumaya]], [[Mexico City]]")
![church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo]] in Toledo, his first commission in Spain.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Domenikos Theotokópoulos, called El Greco - The Assumption of the Virgin - Google Art Project.jpg?width=200 "church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo]] in Toledo, his first commission in Spain.")
![Cathedral]], Toledo) is one of the most famous [[altarpiece]]s of El Greco. El Greco's altarpieces are renowned for their dynamic compositions and startling innovations.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/El Expolio, por El Greco.jpg?width=200 "Cathedral]], Toledo) is one of the most famous [[altarpiece]]s of El Greco. El Greco's altarpieces are renowned for their dynamic compositions and startling innovations.")
![Greek]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/El Greco - St Andrew and St Francis (signature detail).jpg?width=200 "Greek]].")
![56 × 62 cm}}, [[Benaki Museum]], Athens). The icon, signed by El Greco ("Χείρ Δομήνιχου", Created by the hand of Doménicos), was painted in Candia on part of an old chest.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/El Greco - The Adoration of the Magi - Google Art Project (721007).jpg?width=200 "56 × 62 cm}}, [[Benaki Museum]], Athens). The icon, signed by El Greco (\"Χείρ Δομήνιχου\", Created by the hand of Doménicos), was painted in Candia on part of an old chest.")
![church of Santo Tomé]], Toledo), now El Greco's best known work, illustrates a popular local legend. An exceptionally large painting, it is clearly divided into two zones: the heavenly above and the terrestrial below, brought together compositionally.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/El Greco - The Burial of the Count of Orgaz.JPG?width=200 "church of Santo Tomé]], Toledo), now El Greco's best known work, illustrates a popular local legend. An exceptionally large painting, it is clearly divided into two zones: the heavenly above and the terrestrial below, brought together compositionally.")
![47.75 × 42.75 cm}}, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], New York) is one of the two surviving landscapes of Toledo painted by El Greco.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/El Greco View of Toledo.jpg?width=200 "47.75 × 42.75 cm}}, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], New York) is one of the two surviving landscapes of Toledo painted by El Greco.")
![58 × 86 cm}}, [[Museo di Capodimonte]], [[Naples]]). In the portrait of Clovio, friend and supporter in Rome of the young Cretan artist, the first evidence of El Greco's gifts as a [[portrait]]ist are apparent.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Julije Klovic 2.jpg?width=200 "58 × 86 cm}}, [[Museo di Capodimonte]], [[Naples]]). In the portrait of Clovio, friend and supporter in Rome of the young Cretan artist, the first evidence of El Greco's gifts as a [[portrait]]ist are apparent.")
![300 × 178 cm}}, oil on canvas, [[Museo del Prado]], Madrid, Spain) was part of a group of works created for the church "Santo Domingo el Antiguo".](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Trinidad El Greco2.jpg?width=200 "300 × 178 cm}}, oil on canvas, [[Museo del Prado]], Madrid, Spain) was part of a group of works created for the church \"Santo Domingo el Antiguo\".")
.jpg?width=200 "The Immaculate Conception")
, Christ Cleansing the Temple, probably before 1570, NGA 43723.jpg?width=200 "Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple")
 - Laocoön - Google Art Project.jpg?width=200 "Laocoön")
 - Saint Jerome - A73 - Hispanic Society of America.jpg?width=200 "Saint Jerome")
, Saint Jerome, c. 1610-1614, NGA 12204.jpg?width=200 "Saint Jerome")
 - Fray Hortensio Félix Paravicino - Google Art Project.jpg?width=200 "Fray Hortensio Félix Paravicino")
 - Portrait of Dr. Francisco de Pisa - Google Art Project.jpg?width=200 "Portrait of Dr. Francisco de Pisa")
.jpg?width=200 "Portrait of a Bearded Man")
Wikipedia
Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος, IPA: [ðoˈminikos θeotoˈkopulos]; 1 October 1541 – 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco (Spanish pronunciation: [el ˈɣɾeko]; "The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. 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 (Krḗs), which means "Cretan".
El Greco was born in the Kingdom of Candia (modern Crete), which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, Italy, and the center of Post-Byzantine art. He trained and became a master within that tradition before traveling at age 26 to Venice, as other Greek artists had done. In 1570, he moved to Rome, where he opened a workshop and executed a series of works. During his stay in Italy, El Greco enriched his style with elements of Mannerism and of the Venetian Renaissance taken from a number of great artists of the time, notably Tintoretto. In 1577, he moved to Toledo, Spain, where he lived and worked until his death. In Toledo, El Greco received several major commissions and produced his best-known paintings, such as View of Toledo and Opening of the Fifth Seal.
El Greco's dramatic and expressionistic style was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries but found appreciation by the 20th century. El Greco is regarded as a precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism, while his personality and works were a source of inspiration for poets and writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke and Nikos Kazantzakis. El Greco has been characterized by modern scholars as an artist so individual that he belongs to no conventional school. He is best known for tortuously elongated figures and often fantastic or phantasmagorical pigmentation, marrying Byzantine traditions with those of Western painting.
