Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...19th century French painter who is famous for the distinctive yellow coloring in his pictures which are being exhibited throughout the country is (1 Monet, 2 Picasso, 3 van Gogh, 4 La Forge, 5 El Greco...
...painting by the famous 16th century artist Domenico Theotocopuli, known as El Greco, has been anonymously donated to join two other pictures by the same painter already owned by the Fogg Museum...
...Greco was a Greek painter who founded a "Spanish" school, and lived from 1548 until 1614, or slightly later. Coming under the influence of Titian in Italy for a time, he later settled in Toledo, supported by the patronage of Philip II of Spain, and in his later life produced some remarkable works of a religious nature...
...cost Frick $475,000. Round the corner hangs another portrait by another great countryman who for a time tried to paint in a way Velasquez did later, not realizing that he had spiritual gifts far greater than technical slickness: a portrait of the Italian commander Vincentio Anastagi by El Greco...
Primitives of the Catalonian and Aragonese Schools were there, along with excellent examples of 15th and 16th Century anonymous religious paintings. But the reputation of Spain as an art centre rests entirely on the work of three great painters: Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, Domenico Theotocopuli (El Greco), Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. Of the three, Velazquez was of Portuguese descent and Theotocopuli a Greek, which leaves the glory of Spanish art to just one thoroughgoing Spaniard, Goya...