DOMENIKOS THEOTOCOPOULOS EL GRECO

EL GRECO1INDEX1.- Biography2.- Historical Context3.- Characteristics of his work4.- Paintings

1.-BIOGRAPHY 1.- He was born in Crete in 1541 ( Republican Venice)

Next year (2014)will mark the fourth centenary of his death2.- He lived there for 26 years painting icons (byzantine tradition)3.- In 1577 he travelled to Venice and Rome. He studied there for ten years.4.- He arrived in Toledo ( Spain) in 1577 and he settle there until his death in 1614

52.-Historical Context RENAISSANCE (16th century)

REIGN OF HASBBURG (PHILIP II ) -THE TIME OF CATHOLIC COUNTER

Leonardo da VinciMichelangeloShakespeareSinanCopernicoCervantesContemporary artist

JULIO IIFERNANDO HABSBURGO King of HungarySLEYMAN I IMPERIO OTOMANOPHILIP IISpainELISABETH II United Kingdom3.-CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS PAINGTINGSA)Religious issues B)Colourful ( Ranges warm and cold) -C) Division in the table in two zones ( celestial and terrenal)-D) Elongated figures( MANNERISM)

BAPTISM OF SAN JUANA)RELIGIOUS THEMES

B) COLOURFUL

CELESTIAL AREATERRENAL AREABAPTISM OF SAN JUANC)TWO DIFFERENTS AREAS

D)Elongated figuresMannerism styleBAPTISM OF SAN JUAN

BAPTISM OF SAN JUANExpressive faces and hands

EXPRESSIVES EYESEXPRESIVES HANDS4.- PAINTINGS PAINTIGNS IN CRETA

PAINTINGS IN ITALIA

PAINTINGS IN EL ESCORIAL

PAINTIGNS IN TOLEDO ( Greco`s House, Cathedral, Sto Tome s Church, Sta Cruz`s Museum)

PAINTINGS IN DIFERENTS MUSEUMS OF THE WORLDPaintings in Crete

ICONS Paintings in Italy

HE STUDIED WIHT DE VENETIAN PAINTERS

-TITIANO-VERONES

AND ROMAN PAINTERS

-MIGUEL ANGEL

Christ heals a blindPaintings in Monastery Escorial (Madrid)

The Martyrdom of St. MauriceHis work did not please the king and went to ToledoPaintings in ToledoHIS CLIENTS WERE THE CLERGY (Monasteries, Convents)

MOST OF HIS FAMOUS PAINTINGS ARE IN TOLEDO

1.-MUSEUM OF GRECO ( Saints, landscape of Toledo )

2.-SACRISTY OF TOLEDO CATHEDRAL( The spoliation of Chris)

3.-STO TOME `S CHURCH (The Burial of Count Orgaz)

IN THE 16TH CENTURY , TOLEDO WAS A VERY IMPORTANT SPANISH TOWN GRECO`S MUSEUM (TOLEDO)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z70yFEYjTzk

NIGHT LANDSCAPE OF TOLEDO

SERIES OF APOSTLESGRECOS MUSEUM

TEARS OF SAN PEDRO

CATHEDRAL OF TOLEDO

The sacristy is where priests dressceiling painted by Luca GiordanoSacristy http://www.catedralprimada.es/sacristia/

The expoliaton of Christ

The table tells the time that Christ will be crucified and will be stripped of his robe

THE BURIAL OF THE COUNT OF ( Iglesia Sto Tom) 1588IT`S HIS MASTERPIECE , IT WAS VALUED at 1.200 escudos ( 90.000 euros nowadays)

4,80 cm3,60 cm

Soul Count The corpseSelf portrait

http://www.flickr.com/photos/duckmarx/4673400073/

EL GRECO AND MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD MOST OF HIS PAINTINS ARE IN TOLEDO,

BUT THERE ARE HIS PAINTINGS IN

DIFERENTS MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD

MUSEO DEL PRADO ( Madrid)

GENTLEMAN WITH HIS HAND ON HIS BREASTThe Holy Trinity41

Adoration of the ShepherdsBaptism of ChristNATIONAL GALLERY ( London)

Laocoon and his childrenLOUVRE MUSEUM (Paris)Saint Luis King of France

ERMITAGE ( Moscu )

APOSTLESUFIZZI ( ITALY)

Saint JUAN AND Saint FRANCISCONEWS OF GRECO IN POLANDDorota Pikula, a historian Polish , discovered 45 years ago a painting of El Greco in Siedlce, (next to Podznan), a litte town from Poland.

The painting titled Saint Francisco was found in a little church.

Nueva York.

Sotheby`s House has sold a painting of El Greco by 750.000 $THE LAST NEW ABOUT THE GRECO

30 enero 2013

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