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El Greco

Also known as Domingo Teotocópul, Domenico Teotocopulo, Domenico Theotokopoulos, Domingo Theotocópuli, Dominikos Greco, Le Grec, Domenico Teotopopuli, Doménikos Zeotokopoulos

Greek artist, painter, sculptor and architect (1541–1614)

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El Greco, also known as Theotocopuli and Dominico, was an artist born in 1541 and died on April 7, 1614. He is the subject of various works, including "Le Greco" and texts curated by Guido Ballo. His writings include observations on art, such as the statement that imitation of colour is the greatest difficulty of art, and comments on Michelangelo.

He is referenced by 1,047 other encyclopedia articles and appears in collections with works counts ranging from five to ninety-five. His image is available in a Commons gallery and creator page. He is described on a Google Arts & Culture URL.

Synthesized by Vinony from 26 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born: 1541?
Died: 1614
Works: 95

Top works

Greco, 1541-1614
Le Greco
El Greco (1541-1614)
Greco
El Greco, a cura di Guido Ballo

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: France
Active from: 1927-02-07
Active to: 2020-09-23

chansonchanson françaisechanson à textejazz

Discography

Juliette Gréco chante ses derniers succès1952
Juliette Gréco chante… – 2e série1953
Duo1956
4ème série1956
New Style1958
N°6 : « 10 ans de chansons »1959
N°71961
N°81963
Les Grandes Chansons1964
Juliette Gréco chante Mac Orlan1964

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 5,514
Total plays: 26,371

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,975x
Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and Control Theory
· 1994 · cited 15,196x
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,704x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,997x
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,241x

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Quotes

“I hold the imitation of colour to be the greatest difficulty of art.”
“..he [[w:Michelangelo|[= Michelangelo] ]] was a good man, but he did not know how to paint.”
“Now, in order to claim some knowledge of painting, Vitruvius speaks of the consideration of the perfect human body and about how good sculptors and painters in order to make it give it a height of ten faces, and I say that according to them they have read and they say that this proportion is based on knowledge of measurement and that it happens that without it it is not possible to have proportion or consideration because those who are not cognizant of this do not count.”
“If Vasari really knew the nature of the Greek style of which he speaks, he would deal with it differently in what he says. He compares it with Giotto, but what Giotto did is simple in comparison, because the Greek style is full of ingenious difficulties [= translation of Greek art historian Nicos Hadjinicolau] / full of deceptive difficulties. [= translation of Spanish art historians Xavier de Salas and Fernando María].”
“I am neither bound to say why I came to this city nor to answer the other questions put to me.”
“..because in this way the form will be perfect and not reduced, which is the worst thing that can happen to a figure.”

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Works in European collections

28 objects attributed to El Greco, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος, pronounced [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, regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time. 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" in Ancient Greek.

El Greco was born in the Kingdom of Candia (modern Crete), which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, 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 and Titian. 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “El Greco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.