biography
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Greco, El
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(Span ‘the Greek’), nickname of Domenikos Theotokopoulos
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pronunciation:
[grekoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1541–1614)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Candia, Crete, Greece. He studied in Italy, probably as a pupil of Titian, and is known to have settled in Toledo, Spain, c.1577. He became a portrait painter whose reputation fluctuated because of the suspicion which greeted his characteristic distortions, such as his elongated, flamelike figures. His most famous painting is probably the ‘Burial of Count Orgaz’ (1586) in the Church of San Tomé, Toledo. Many of his works are in Toledo, where there is also the Museo del Greco. |
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