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Almost nothing is known about his mother or his first wife, except that they were also Greek. Art [ edit ]. Foundoulaki, Efi 24 August El Greco was highly esteemed as an architect and sculptor during his lifetime. Architecture and sculpture [ edit ]. It is more difficult to outline precisely the influence of the Cretan School in his work.

He never returned to his home country. Cormack, Robin Clovio characterized El Greco as "a rare talent in painting". Cormack, Robin; Vassilaki Maria August Katimertzi, Paraskevi.

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Marias, Fernando Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. Lambraki-Plaka, Marina The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. According to Franz Marc , one of the principal painters of the German expressionist movement, "we refer with pleasure and with steadfastness to the case of El Greco, because the glory of this painter is closely tied to the evolution of our new perceptions on art".

Surviving contracts mention him as the tenant from onwards of a complex consisting of three apartments and twenty-four rooms which belonged to the Marquis de Villena. In such an environment his character and his artistic ideas formed. Early years and family [ edit ].

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Mature works and later years [ edit ]. Timeline of El Greco's life —7 April Jones, Jonathan 24 January Filmed in Crete, Rhodes, Athens and Spain , it follows the life of the artist amongst turbulent events of history. El Greco also excelled as a portraitist, able not only to record a sitter's features but also to convey their character.

The New York Review of Books. Davies, David; Elliott, John H. Maurice" "Laocoon" pictured above "Opening of the Fifth Seal" Laocoon