El Greco: 1541-1614
Domenikos Theotokopoulos
Creta / Creta
1566: to Venice / Venecia
1570: to Rome / Roma
1577: to Toledo
Success with private and
church commissions (not
royal painter)
Autorretrato
Self-portrait
View of Toledo
1597
Metropolitan NY
Knight with hand
on his chest
1587
Christ on Cross
Viewed by Donors
1585-1590
Louvre
Portrait of a
Cardinal
1600
Metropolitan NY
Laocoon
1610
Opening of the
Fifth Seal of the
Apocalypse
1608-1614
Metropolitan NY
El entierro del
conde de Orgaz
Burial of the
Count of Orgaz
1586-1588
Iglesia de Santo
Tomé, Toledo
“Entierro”
inferior
Angel con Alma
Angel with Soul
Lower right
Christ
Jesucristo
Virgen y San Juan