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...made everyone feel better,” Chang said. “We all thought it would be close.” Freshman Laurin Weisenthal swam away from her teammates, finishing in 10:12.93—15.2 seconds ahead of junior teammate Stephanie Greco. Freshman Rachel Walker finished third...
Even the eccentricities of Mannerism, the 16th century style that we generally group him within, can't fully account for him. His figures may be elongated in the Mannerist style, but the swanning courtiers in Pontormo or Parmigianino, most of them as slender as greyhounds, are nothing like El Greco's rough-cut saints, famished men with skin the color of split timber and stiff robes draped around them like crumpled fenders. And while the Mannerist palette, all that coy bump and grind of pink and yellow, is calculated sometimes to startle, the explosive oddity of El Greco is something...
...comes down to us as El Greco--"the Greek"--because he was born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Crete. At the time, 1541, the island was a colony of Venice, but one that looked east in artistic matters to the traditions of the Byzantine. By his 20s he was already a recognized local practitioner of the religious-icon style. His gifts and ambition eventually took him to Venice, where his art was transformed by the twisting energies and sensual palettes of Titian and Tintoretto, all of which he turned to his own purposes. In The Purification of the Temple, a scene that...
...Rome, where he found no major commissions. It may not have helped that while there he managed to criticize, loudly, Michelangelo, the local god who had died just six years earlier. It will come as no surprise to hear that an artist as original as El Greco could be a difficult and opinionated man; his correspondence is full of squabbles over how much he should rightfully be paid. It was the same in Madrid, where he went in hope of securing work from Philip II, the Habsburg King who was then completing El Escorial, his immense new monastery-palace...
While it is not clear that El Greco shared their mystical disposition, he found the language to express their religious ecstasies in paint. He also produced a few works of maudlin religiosity. It takes a strong stomach to love his popeyed penitents or some of his more beseeching Virgins. His real-world portraits, among the first in European art to probe psychology, were another matter. Look at his magnificent account of a cardinal who is probably the Grand Inquisitor himself--Nino de Guevara, Spain's Inquisitor General. Armored in his robes, with a mysterious letter dropped at his feet...