El greco mannerism biography examples

EL GRECO also known as Domenicos Theotokopoulos

1541-1614

One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time

Visionary Greek Mannerist Painter

Stylistically influenced by the following painters;  - Titian, Tintoretto

Education - studied under Titian

Cause of Death -  drowning

Mannerist painting example - Saint Martin and the Beggar, c.

El greco mannerism biography examples

1597,  by El Greco  

In the works that introduced him to Spain, Christ Stripped of His Garments on Calvary, El Greco has freed himself from Titian, and now seems as a savage entering the world of art with impetuous primeval power.

He displays his a collection of Herculean figures composed of real flesh and blood, of barbaric bone and marrow. The same quality gives his painting of the Holy Trinity a primeval, brutal grandeur. His picture in the church of San Tome in Toledo, in which members of a knightly order solemnly attend the funeral of count Orgaz, whose corpse is lowered into a grave by