{"id":102,"date":"2021-09-30T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/?p=102"},"modified":"2021-10-15T06:25:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T06:25:31","slug":"baroque-dutch-golden-age-el-greco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/2021\/09\/30\/baroque-dutch-golden-age-el-greco\/","title":{"rendered":"Baroque, Dutch Golden Age – El Greco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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El Greco, also known as Dom\u00e9nikos Theotok\u00f3poulos, was born in Crete in 1541 and descended from a prosperous urban family. He was known for being a Greek painter, as well as a sculptor and architect. He trained as a disciple at Titan\u2019s workshop in Venice and later traveled to Rome in 1570. Despite studying the craft of art, he unfortunately often found himself struggling and being overshadowed by more prominent artists in his time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest (ca. 1580).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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One of El Greco’s only surviving landscape paintings: View of Toledo (1598-99).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Struggling to make a name for himself, he later traveled to Italy and Spain, and through these travels, he developed a style along with the likes of Caravaggio and Titian. He learned how to incorporate perspective, vanishing points, and how to capture the gestures of the human figure. El Greco\u2019s ambition and adaptability managed to create a career that was shaped by the Venetian Renaissance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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El Greco, A Boy Blowing on an Ember to Light a Candle (El Sopl\u00f3n)<\/em> (ca. 1570).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Adoration of the Shepherds (1612-14).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1586-88). El Greco begins to incorporate densely packed pieces. This tightly cropped artwork further enhances the piece as it makes the figures pop. The use of negative space with the row of onlookers in black is cleverly used to separate the top and bottom of the mural.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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It is prominent that El Greco’s change in style was highly influenced by Caravaggio. The most notable feature of his works is the use of Caravaggio’s iconic dark shadows and dramatic lighting. He was able to create visual tension in his pieces, along with a striking narrative in his more religious works. It’s amazing to see how his style evolved; his colours and composition grew bolder, which results in the figures seemingly popping out of the frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cBiography of El Greco.\u201d El Greco Biography | Life, Paintings, Influence on Art<\/em>, https:\/\/www.el-greco-foundation.org\/biography.html. Accessed 30 Sep. 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Greco El (1541 – 1614).” A Biographical Dictionary of Artists, Andromeda<\/em>, edited by Lawrence Gowing, Windmill Books (Andromeda International), 2nd edition, 1995. Credo Reference<\/em>, https:\/\/ezproxy.capilanou.ca\/login?url=https:\/\/search.credoreference.com\/content\/entry\/andbda\/greco_el_1541_1614\/0?institutionId=6884. Accessed 30 Sep. 2021.Morfin, Marcelina. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c10 Paintings and Artworks by El Greco You Should Know.\u201d Culture Trip<\/em>, The Culture Trip, 25 Apr. 2016, https:\/\/theculturetrip.com\/europe\/spain\/articles\/10-artworks-by-el-greco-you-should-know\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

El Greco, also known as Dom\u00e9nikos Theotok\u00f3poulos, was born in Crete in 1541 and descended from a prosperous urban family. He was known for being a Greek painter, as well as a sculptor and architect. He trained as a disciple at Titan\u2019s workshop in Venice and later traveled to Rome in 1570. Despite studying the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13166,"featured_media":119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelaaguilar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}