El Greco

[el grek-oh, el gre-kaw]

noun

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

El Greco

/ 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

Greco, El

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.

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.

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“We got a Small Business Administration loan for El Greco. We laughed and called it our nonprofit therapy. It was a labor of love,” Hettinger recalls.

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The show kicks off with some of the young Sargent’s lively copies of works by El Greco, Velázquez and Goya.

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

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It will be displayed alongside El Greco's Christ on the Cross, which was bought by the gallery in 2015.

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