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| Name: |
Greco, El | | Birth Date: |
1541 | | Death Date: |
April, 1614 | | Place of Birth: |
Candia, Crete, Greece | | Place of Death: |
Toledo, Spain | | Nationality: |
Greek | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
painter, artist |
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Biography of Greco, El
2,082 words, approx. 7 pages
 El Greco (1541-1614), a Greek painter who settled in Spain, evolved a highly personal style with mannerist traits. He was a great religious painter of a visionary nature and a master portraitist. El Greco is regarded as one of the greatest painters of...


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El Greco Information
11,678 words, approx. 39 pages
 For the Vangelis album, see El Greco (album). For 2007 film, see El Greco (film). El Greco ("The Greek"[a][b], 1541 – April 7 1614) was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He usually signed his paintings in Greek letters...




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 World and I
El Greco: The Earthly Transfigured.
01/01/2004: 2,884 words, approx. 10 pages A touring exhibition attempts to place El Greco squarely in the context of his period. Despite undeniable influences of other artists, however, his work simply transcends time and category. El Greco's best-known paintings, with their writhing figures, lashing brushstrokes, and lightening-limned forms...
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 Contemporary Review
El Greco at the National Gallery.
05/01/2004: 4,294 words, approx. 14 pages IN its latest exhibition the National Gallery has mounted, in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the most comprehensive display of El Greco's paintings since Le Greco: de la Crete a Tolede in Bordeaux in 1953. A particular success...
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 AP Features
U.S. museum loans masterpieces to new showcase
3/30/2007: 338 words, approx. 1 pages A new museum devoted to Jewish heritage has been thrust into the art world spotlight with loaned works by Rembrandt, El Greco, Rubens and others while the Cleveland Museum of Art undergoes renovation.The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, which opened in 2005, has presented well-regarded...
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Recovered Goya arrives at Guggenheim
2/15/2007: 351 words, approx. 1 pages A painting of children at play by Francisco de Goya belatedly joined an exhibit of Spanish masterpieces on Thursday after being stolen en route from an Ohio museum and then recovered."All's well that ends well," said Don Bacigalupi, director of the Toledo Museum of Art,...


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