High atop a hill of granite, surrounded by the gorge and river Tagus sits the ancient and formidable gothic Cathedral and Moorish palace, Alcazar, of Toledo, Spain. Toledo's skyline has changed little since El Greco immortalized Spain's religious centre in 1597-9(Cardillac 28). El Greco's n...

There were many inspiring and fantastic painters in the 1500's. Europe had painters who made a big impact on the world. El Greco was a Greek painter who moved to Spain and is regarded as one of the greatest religious painters and a master portraitist. El Greco is one of the most famous painters ...

El Greco was born in 1541 and died in 1614 in Toledo at age 73. He was named at birth Domeniko's TheotoKopoulos. He was born in Candia, the capital of the island of Crete, off the coast of Greece. Nothing is certain is known of the first twenty five years of El Greco's life, except that ...

Domenico Theotocopoulos (El Greco) was one of the most highly regarded Spanish artists of his time. He was born in Fodele, a minor community located on the isle of Crete, in about 1542. Theotocopoulos, also known as "El Greco" (meaning The Greek), was to become a "Spanish" mannerist, whose work,...

Amid several 16th century works of art, the painting "Toledo" by El Greco (the Greek) is exhibited in the H. O. Havemeyer Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. This piece is small-sized and brushed on a canvas with oil paint. Its unrealistic dimmed colors make it a promine...

Kyriakos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) was trained as a post Byzantine religious icon painter in Crete and was influenced by the Cretian hagiographic school. He eventually abandoned this style. El Greco was a Spanish mannerist painter. In 1566 he went to Venice, Italy, where he remained until 1570 u...

My first response to the work of El Greco's View of Toledo, Spain 1597-1599, made me think of medieval times. I had a visual of a row of knights riding on horses up a mountain to a castle where they will be in some type of battle to conquer and take over the land. The most breathtaking part of t...

As you enter the fascinating Frick Collection - a labyrinth-like art museum held in the former mansion of Henry Clay Frick - you come across some of the best–known paintings by some of the greatest European artists in history. Among the paintings, major works of sculpture, eighteenth-century Fren...

El Greco Biography In 1541, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, was born on the island of Crete in Greece. He became a master draftsman in Greece. In 1559, at the age of 18, he left Crete to study in Venice. There he studied for 10 years, and for 7 more years he studied in Rome. In 1577, after 17 years...

Assignment: The baroque has been called a theatrical style, one that deals in spectacle, grandeur, and dramatic contrast. Test these concepts in an essay that discusses the baroque as an expression of the Catholic Reformation, Protestant devotionalism, the Scientific Revolution, and the Age of Absol...