El Greco (1541–1614)

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El Greco (medieval Castilian for “the Greek”) is the name by which Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος Domênikos Theotokópoulos de Candia (1541, Heraklion, Crete,Greece – April 7, 1614, Toledo, Spain), a Greek-Spanish painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish school, is best known.

He was a painter in Crete, where he was born, and first trained as an icon painter. At the age of twenty-six, he journeyed to Venice and to Rome where he studied under Titian. In 1577 he emigrated to Toledo — at the time the ecclesiastical capital of Spain — where he produced his mature works, and led a successful career as a painter of altarpieces and portraits. Many of El Greco’s works are on display at Madrid’s Museo del Prado.

From Wikipedia

 

Penitent Mary Magdalene, c. 1580, El Greco

Dream of Philip II (ca. 1580), El Greco

The Agony in the Garden (c. 1610), El Greco

St. Martin and the Beggar (ca. 1597-1599), El Greco

Baptism of Christ (ca. 1596-1600), El Greco

St. Peter (1610-1614), El Greco

The Appearing of the Holy Spirit (1604-1614), El Greco

The Resurrection (1595-1600), El Greco

The Wedding at Cana (c. 1600), El Greco

The Annunciation, c. 1570, El Greco

Christ Healing the Blind, c. 1567, El Greco (1541-1416)

The Last Supper, c. 1568, El Greco

Toledo (c. 1608), El Greco

Laocoon (1604-1614), El Greco

Source: Wikimedia