El Greco

By :Blake

Table of Contents• Life of Artist• Significant Events• Where artist Studied• Style• Examples of work• Links• Work Cited

Life of Artist

• El Greco was of Greek descent• He signed paintings with

Doménikos Theotokópoulos, his Greek name.

• His name, El Greco, means “The Greek”.

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Significant Events

• El Greco had a byzantine heritage.

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Where Artist Studied

• El Greco entered the studio of Titan.• Titan was the greatest painter of the day.

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Style

• El Greco brought figures to the foreground• He achieved new colors.• He sometimes used the contrapposto style

when portraying people.• Later in life El Greco became more abstract.

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Examples of Work

• The Burial of the Count de Orgaz (1586–88) is considered to be his masterpiece.

• The Adoration of the Shepherds was a work of El Greco done later in life.

• It was abstract.

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Links

Website

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Works Citedhttp://apcfinearts.com/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/244100/El-Greco(1)http://www.homewoodlibrary.org/kids/images-for-main-youth-page/cartoon%20palette.gif/image http://www.elgreco.net/elgrecopaintings.jsp

http://europeanhistory.boisestate.edu/crusades/Byzantium/12.shtmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Greco

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