Word: theotocopuli
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...fine portraits; St. Martin is better. It is one of the most important works of a man whose intellect has had few equals among the minds of the world. Very little is known about El Greco. Even his name is in doubt; students believe that it was Theotocopuli, but the Spaniards of Toledo, in whose country he passed the richest part of his life, found this name barbarous, and never wrote or spoke of him except as Dominico Greco. Great princes of the 16th Century, whose eyes were unsealed, honored him by this name; the men of nearer times, putting...
...true that Dominico Theotocopuli was mad. It is true that he was astigmatic, for one must believe that sanity and sight lie in numbers, and certainly he did not see or think as did any other man of his time. He saw the spirit in the body, shapes of the mind in every earthly shape. Only a few saints and mathematicians have understood as he did; they, too, were mad. Heads in which a cone is buried; elongated muscles and loins growing up through the paint in mystery like weeds or flowers; skies that break, trees that kneel, faces...
...What was Painter Domenico Theotocopuli called...
...interesting paintings of the Spanish School are now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum. One, a Madonna and Saints with a kneeling Donor is a work of the XV-XVI Century Castillian School. The other is a Saint Dominick by Domenico Theotocopuli, better known as El Greco, who lived from about...