Monday, August 5, 2024

 El Greco
(1541 – 1614)
 
Doménikos Theotokópoulos most widely known as El Greco (Spanish pronunciation: [el ˈgɾeko]; "The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. El Greco was a nickname, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, often adding the word Κρής (Krḗs), which means "Cretan", in Ancient Greek.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Greco


Self-Portrait or Portrait of an Old Man
1595/1600
Oil on canvas
52,7 x 46,7 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436574

Self-Portrait or Portrait of an Old Man is an oil-on-canvas painting by El Greco, dating to between 1595 and 1600 and usually identified as a self-portrait. It shows the influence of Titian and Tintoretto, whose works El Greco studied in Venice. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.



Portrait of Jorge Manuel Theotokopoulos, posted on 5 July

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