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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

A spokesman for Phillips said Churchill gave Onassis the painting in 1961 to mark their friendship and that the work had hung on Onassis’s yacht alongside works by El Greco, Gauguin and Pissarro.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2022

He likened himself to Michelangelo, El Greco and Rembrandt, and with the proceeds from Ms. Keane’s artwork, he bought a gated home with a swimming pool and servants.

From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2022

Everything was hodgepodge: grandmotherly lamps stood next to El Greco reproductions; bull’s horns hung from the neck of an Aphrodite statuette.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides