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El Greco

1541 - 1614

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Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος, IPA: [ðoˈminikos θeotoˈkopulos]; 1 October 1541 – 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco (Spanish pronunciation: [el ˈgɾeko]; "The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. El Greco was a nickname, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters often adding the word Κρής (Krḗs), which means "Cretan" in Ancient Greek. El Greco was born in the Kingdom of Candia (modern Crete), which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, Italy, and the center of Post-Byzantine art. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of El Greco has received more than 3,065,549 page views. His biography is available in 104 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 100 in 2019). El Greco is the 18th most popular painter (up from 28th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Greece (up from 23rd in 2019) and the most popular Greek Painter.

El Greco is most famous for his use of color and the elongated figures in his paintings.

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  • 3.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 82.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 104

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, El Greco ranks 18 out of 2,023. Before him are Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Johannes Vermeer, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, and Sandro Botticelli. After him are Diego Velázquez, Paul Gauguin, Piet Mondrian, Titian, Gustav Klimt, and Donatello.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1541, El Greco ranks 1. After him are Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ayşe Sultan, Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi, Pierre Charron, Johann Bauhin, Hypatius Pociej, John Leonardi, Philip II, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels, and Jakub Wujek. Among people deceased in 1614, El Greco ranks 1. After him are Elizabeth Báthory, Lavinia Fontana, Camillus de Lellis, Mavro Orbini, Marina Mniszech, Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, Luís Vaz de Torres, François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, and Man Singh I.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, El Greco ranks 13 out of 1,024. Before him are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881), Hippocrates (-460), Sophocles (-497), Pericles (-494), Democritus (-460), and Epicurus (-341). After him are Kösem Sultan (1590), Saint Stephen (1), Euripides (-480), Aristophanes (-448), Plutarch (46), and Aeschylus (-525).

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Among PAINTERS In Greece

Among painters born in Greece, El Greco ranks 1. After him are Giorgio de Chirico (1888), Nikolaos Gyzis (1842), Jannis Kounellis (1936), Agatharchus (-500), Achilles Painter (-470), Apollodorus (-500), Douris (-600), Timarete (-420), Pamphilus (-390), Euphranor (-301), and Nikiforos Lytras (1832).

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