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El Greco
[ el grek-oh; Spanish el gre-kaw ]
noun
- Domenikos Theotocopoulos, 1541鈥1614, Spanish painter, born in Crete.
El Greco
/ 蓻l 藞伞r蓻k蓹蕣 /
noun
- El Greco15411614MSpanishGreekARTS AND CRAFTS: painter real name Domenikos Theotocopoulos. 1541鈥1614, Spanish painter, born in Crete; noted for his elongated human forms and dramatic use of colour
Greco, El
- A Greek painter of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries who spent most of his career in Spain ( El Greco is Spanish for 鈥渢he Greek鈥). He is famous for his paintings of religious subjects and for his distorted, elongated figures.
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Without it, we wouldn鈥檛 know the riveting paintings of El Greco or Rubens, Caravaggio or Van Gogh, the way we do today.
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鈥淲e got a Small Business Administration loan for El Greco. We laughed and called it our nonprofit therapy. It was a labor of love,鈥 Hettinger recalls.
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The show kicks off with some of the young Sargent鈥檚 lively copies of works by El Greco, Vel谩zquez and Goya.
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The magnificent spring of culture that brought us 鈥淒on Quixote,鈥 the Escorial palace, El Greco, and Vel谩zquez.
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It will be displayed alongside El Greco's Christ on the Cross, which was bought by the gallery in 2015.
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