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The Ages of El Greco: From Crete to Toledo
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editor: Podcast
- Duración: 0:51:22
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Felix Monguilot Benzal, art historian; docent, education division, Borghese Gallery, Rome; and Kress Interpretive Fellow (2012–2013), National Gallery of Art. During opening week of the exhibition El Greco in the National Gallery of Art and Washington-Area Collections: A 400th Anniversary Celebration, Felix Monguilot Benzal presented a lecture on November 8, 2014 tracing the artist's career from Crete to Toledo, Spain. Domenikos Theotokopoulos, universally known as El Greco (1541–1614), was born on the Greek island of Crete, where he achieved mastery as a painter of Byzantine icons. Aspiring to success on a larger stage, he moved to Venice in his late twenties and absorbed the lessons of High Renaissance masters, especially Titian and Tintoretto. In 1570 he departed for Rome, where he studied the work of Michelangelo and encountered the style known as mannerism, which rejected the logic and naturalism of Renaissance art. El Greco relocated to Spain in 1576 and spent the rest of his life in Toledo, where he fi