El Greco

[ el grek-oh; Spanish el gre-kaw ]

noun

1. Domenikos Theotocopoulos, 1541–1614, Spanish painter, born in Crete.

El Greco

/ ɛl ˈɡrɛkəʊ /

noun

1. El Greco15411614MSpanishGreekARTS AND CRAFTS: painter real name Domenikos Theotocopoulos. 1541–1614, Spanish painter, born in Crete; noted for his elongated human forms and dramatic use of colour

Greco, El

1. A Greek painter of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries who spent most of his career in Spain ( El Greco is Spanish for “the Greek”). He is famous for his paintings of religious subjects and for his distorted, elongated figures.

Example Sentences

And, in carefully tailored suits and plastic-framed glasses, he certainly looks more Gordon Gekko than El Greco.

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In fact, at the feast that evening, I found myself sitting next to El Greco.

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El Greco died in 1625, after an uninterrupted residence of nearly forty years in Spain.

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It was a newly discovered work of El Greco, an amazingly fine example of the Master's later style.

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Gaétan replied, glibly enough, that he did not regard El Greco as the eccentric, the madman that people used to take him for.

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In the Museo is a portrait by El Greco, supposed erroneously to be the painter himself.

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