El Greco PDF

Durante los 37 años que El Greco reside en Toledo, su arte sufre una profunda evolución. En una primera etapa, se mantiene fiel a sus fuentes italianas. Pero hacia 1600, se intensifican los elementos artificiales e irreales de sus obras, fundamentalmente antinaturalistas y neoplatónicas.

Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known as El Greco, 'The Greek', was born in Crete, which was then a Venetian possession. El Greco trained in Venice, where he developed his intense, colourful Mannerist style. By 1577 El Greco had settled in Toledo, Spain, where he lived the rest of his life, executing mostly pictures for local religious foundations.