Doménikos Theotókopoulos

Detail from El Greco, Agony in the Garden (Jesus on the Mount of Olives), oil on canvas, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes; photo by Brandon Jones / LOUCHE.art.

El Greco, a Study Film feat. Amelita Galli-Curci

January 15, 2013

A short study film of El Greco from icons to Toledo with Galli-Curci’s “Sempre libera.” See how color carries doctrine, and then visit the companion essay, if you haven’t done so already.

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El Greco’s Agony in the Garden: Christ kneels on dark rocks while an angel offers a chalice and the apostles sleep under a stormy sky.

Stop Calling Toledo “Mature;” El Greco Was Already Mature in Crete.

December 5, 2012

El Greco’s Cretan Years serve as a foundation for this two-language painter (alla Greca, alla Latina); color carries doctrine and the Vasari script begins to loosen.

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