El Greco
By: Payton McCauley
Greek
El Greco was born between 1541 in in kingdom of candia
Toledo
El Greco spent most of his life in toledo spain making paintings,sculptures,and being an aritech
Training
El Grecco spent most of his time he was in school training to be a master
Life/Lifestyle
Greco lived a style of a artist and he believed that grace was the supreme quest of art
ART
El Greco was a painter,sculptor,and an architech and a few of the things he made were
.View of toledo
.the adoration of the sheperds overall
.saint jerome as scholar
Patrons
a few of El Greco's patrons were
.Eugene Delacroix
.Edouard Manet
View of toledo
When was it made
View of toledo was painted in 1541 by El Greco in kingdom of candia
Where can you see it
you can find the painting in the metropolitan museum of art in New York City
Significance
There was not really anything significant about the painting in technique he use it was just oil on canvas
Why i like it
I personally like the painting because i have always wanted to visit toledo and because i really like the colors on the painting because it gives a dark almost creepy feel to it and i think that is really cool
What it represents
I think out of all the ism's it represents it would be HUMANISM because the painting was his idea and it was based off of his opinion on toledo and apparently he thought it was pretty dark
Citation
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Greco
Met museum: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grec/hd_grec.htm