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• El Greco
  El Greco

  noun

  Domenikos Theotocopoulos, 1541–1614, Spanish painter, born in Crete.
• Greco, El
  Greco, El

  A Greek painter of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries who spent most of his career in Spain (El Greco is Spanish for “the Greek”). He is famous for his paintings of religious subjects and for his distorted, elongated figures.

El Greco

American  

[el grek-oh, el gre-kaw] / ɛl ˈgrɛk oʊ, ɛl ˈgrɛ kɔ /

noun

1. Domenikos Theotocopoulos, 1541–1614, Spanish painter, born in Crete.

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El Greco British  

/ ɛl ˈɡrɛkəʊ /

noun

1. real name Domenikos Theotocopoulos. 1541–1614, Spanish painter, born in Crete; noted for his elongated human forms and dramatic use of colour

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Greco, El Cultural  

1. A Greek painter of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries who spent most of his career in Spain (El Greco is Spanish for “the Greek”). He is famous for his paintings of religious subjects and for his distorted, elongated figures.

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Example Sentences

Without it, we wouldn’t know the riveting paintings of El Greco or Rubens, Caravaggio or Van Gogh, the way we do today.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024

The spot was El Greco, which they bought from original owner Thomas Soukakos in 2001.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2023

The magnificent spring of culture that brought us “Don Quixote,” the Escorial palace, El Greco, and Velázquez.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022

Velázquez, who painted 50 years after El Greco, was the court painter to Philip IV of Spain.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

“See how El Greco uses contrast to evoke emotional yearning.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman