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

The elongated physiques of Kyner’s female figures suggest the styles of artists like El Greco, but in sculptural rather than painted form.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2022

As for my mother, she was tranquilized, and remembers only that the pressure in her eyes made Father Mike’s face appear oddly elongated, like a priest in a painting by El Greco.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides