El Greco
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Doménikos Theotokópoulos, most widely known as El Greco, 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 nic
Portrait of a Man, a presumed self-portrait c. 1595–1600, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Dormition of the Virgin (before 1567, tempera and gold on panel, 61.4 × 45 cm, Holy Cathedral of the Dormition of the Virgin, Hermoupolis, Syros) was probably created near the end of the artist's Cretan period. The painting combines post-Byzantine and Italian mannerist stylistic and iconographic elements.
The Adoration of the Magi (1565–1567, 56 × 62 cm, Benaki Museum, Athens). The icon, signed by El Greco ("Χείρ Δομήνιχου", Created by the hand of Doménicos), was painted in Candia on part of an old chest.
Adoration of the Magi, 1568, Museo Soumaya, Mexico City
Opening of the Fifth Seal
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The Opening of the Fifth Seal was painted in the last years of El Greco's life for a side-altar of the church of Saint John the Baptist outside the walls of Toledo. Before 1908, El Greco's painting ha
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…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. El Greco's dramatic and expressionistic style was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries but found appreciation by the 20th century. El Greco is…
The Vision of Saint John MET DT1052
Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907, oil on canvas, 243.9 cm × 233.7 cm (96.0 in × 92.0 in), New York City, Museum of Modern Art)
The Vision of Saint John MET 56.48 1 copy
The Vision of Saint John MET 56.48 2 copy