El Greco

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that as Antonio grows up, his destiny will come naturally to him and he will know what he is meant to be when the right time comes. When Antonio witnessed the death of Florence, he started having terrible nightmares to which Ultima suggested a stay at El Puerto where Antonio will be away from the terrible events that had occurred. Ultima assures Antonio that part of life is the sadness and pain that comes along with it and that Antonio must not give up even in the toughest of times, but rather…

Spain vs. Italy: Renaissance and Baroque Art Both Spain and Italy have a very interesting history of art. Each has their own time in which they start an art movement. Both countries had the Renaissance and both had the Baroque Art, but each country had a different time in which it happened. In Italy, there were different techniques used in art than in Spain. Both may have the same impact on people but there is always something distinct that catches the viewer’s eye. These two countries have…

The Assumption of the Virgin, 1577/79 Domenikos Theotokopoulos, also known as El Greco, was born on 1541 in Greece. El Grecos painting of the Assumption of the Virgin was surely a central element inside one of the many art gallery rooms at the Art Institue of Chicago. It was El Greco’s first major commission in Toledo. It illustrates Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus, being uplifted from her tomb, into heaven. Its approximate size stands nearly 12-13ft x 6.5-7ft. The style of technique used of this…

I will be talking about Greco and Pablo Picasso. They are two amazing artists. Greco was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1540. He was a painter,sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. In 1570 he traveled to Rome where he built a workshop and executed a series of work. When he was in his twenties he traveled to Venice and studied under Titian, who was the most famous painter of his day. At the age of 35 he moved to Toledo, Spain where he lived and worked for the rest of his life and…

In his mid-twenties, he traveled to Venice and studied under Titian, who was the most renowned painter of his day. Learning from Titian, El Greco mastered many aspects of Renaissance painting such as perspective, constructing figures, and creating detailed narrative scenes. These particular skills were noticed especially in his painting above which depicts a visionary experience and explores…

piece that I would soon come to know as "The Savior", by El Greco, and said " Well, you are standing in front of one the most famous paintings in this entire exhibit". Though a tad embarrassed due to my lack of observation, I was immediately entranced and, after thanking my sassy ghost art guide, I made my way over to absorb as much information regarding the work as I could. In accordance, I soon learned that the creator of the piece, El Greco, was a renowned Western artist who not only…

linked together in certain ways. This can be seen with El Greco’s “Burial of Count Orgaz” and Benjamin West’s “The Death of General Wolfe,” in which are from two very different time periods, one relating to that of the Baroque painting style and the other being a neoclassic history painting that derived from the enlightenment. These two paintings are of very different time periods in which “Burial of Count Orgaz” was created in 1586…

When people hear “Sheepshead Bay”, they always think about the big beautiful houses and small local business surrounding the bay area. The bay is a portion that separates Coney Island from Manhattan Beach. It has a small boardwalk where many of the local businesses have settled down for years. People know the area to be a small and close friendly neighborhood. However, there are more sightings of condos being built in this neighborhood that was once filled with big houses and small stores. In…

Thomas Hart Benton, along with a few other artists including Grant Wood and John Stuart Curry were a part of a modern art movement called regionalism. Romance (Fig. 1) was one of the many paintings that Thomas Hart Benton created during this time, the painting was made with mediums of tempera and oil varnish glazes in gesso panel on board and is 45 1/4 inches by 33 1/4 inches. Romance represents everything that a painting created during the Regionalism era should represent. The painting also…