El Greco

El Greco

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 2,901,245 page views. His biography is available in 100 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 97 in 2019). El Greco is the 28th most popular painter (down from 24th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Greece (down from 14th 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.