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1541

El Greco
in 1541
in Doménikos Theotokópoulos

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750519


1565

El Greco
with
The Dormition of the Virgin
in 1565
was probably created near the end of the artist's Cretan period. The painting combines post-Byzantine and Italian mannerist stylistic and iconographic elements.
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750506


1567

El Greco
with
The Adoration of the Magi
in 1567
The icon, signed by El Greco ("Χείρ Δομήνιχου", Created by the hand of Doménicos), was painted in Candia on part of an old chest.
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750513

El Greco
Venice
in 1567
in
Venice
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750522


1568

El Greco
with
The Modena Triptych
in 1568
is a small-scale composition attributed to El Greco.
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750518


1570

El Greco
with
Giorgio Giulio Clovio
in 1570
in
Rome
In the portrait of Clovio, friend and supporter in Rome of the young Cretan artist, the first evidence of El Grecos gifts as a portraitist are apparent.
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El Greco
Rome
in 1570
in
Rome
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750523


1577

El Greco
Toledo, Spain
in 1577
in
Toledo, Spain
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750521

El Greco
Madrid
in 1577
in
Madrid
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750524


1578

El Greco
with
The Assumption of the Virgin
in 1578
in
Armenia
was one of the nine paintings El Greco completed for the church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo, his first commission in Spain.
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-1708425

El Greco
with
The Disrobing of Christ
in 1578
is one of the most famous altarpieces of El Greco. El Greco's altarpieces are renowned for their dynamic compositions and startling innovations.
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750511


1579

El Greco
with
The Holy Trinity
in 1579
was part of a group of works created for the church "Santo Domingo el Antiguo".
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750514


1580

El Greco
in 1580
The Fable
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2147490651

El Greco
in 1580
The Fable
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2147488928


1587

El Greco
with
More details The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
in 1587
now El Greco's best known work, illustrates a popular local legend. An exceptionally large painting, it is clearly divided into two zones: the heavenly above and the terrestrial below, brought together compositionally.
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750510


1595

El Greco
in 1595
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750505


1598

El Greco
with
View of Toledo
in 1598
in
Toledo
is one of the two surviving landscapes of Toledo painted by El Greco.
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-1708422


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