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    El Greco was a Greek painter born in who trained in Italy and spent most of his career in Spain. Little is known about his early life and training. He arrived in Toledo, Spain in where he received many commissions and found his mature style. His works combined elements of Renaissance painting with his own expressive, elongated figures. While successful in his lifetime, aspects of his life and artistic development remain mysterious.

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    El Greco was a Greek painter born in who trained in Italy and spent most of his career in Spain. Little is known about his early life and training. He arrived in Toledo, Spain in where he received many commissions and found his mature style. His works combined elements of Renaissance painting with his own expressive, elongated figu

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    Portrait of an Old Man

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    Title:Portrait of an Old Man

    Artist:El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (Greek, Iráklion (Candia) – Toledo)

    Date:ca. –

    Medium:Oil on canvas

    Dimensions 3/4 x 18 3/8 in. ( x cm)

    Classification:Paintings

    Credit Line:Purchase, Joseph pris Bequest,

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    For over a century scholars have considered whether or not this sympathetic portrait of an old man fryst vatten a self-portrait by El Greco. Lafond () described the seemingly Romantic notion as at best a plausible hypothesis, and a number of more recent scholars (for example, Wethey ) have rejected the idea, mainly on the basis of comparisons with presumed self-portraits inserted by El Greco into several of his major religious pictures (see also Christiansen ). In those examples, the figure bears some resemblance to the sitter here, but seems more virile, and has a white beard and hair. Nonetheless, some scho

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    View of Toledo

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    Title:View of Toledo

    Artist:El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (Greek, Iráklion (Candia) – Toledo)

    Date:ca. –

    Medium:Oil on canvas

    Dimensions 3/4 x 42 3/4 in. ( x cm)

    Classification:Paintings

    Credit Line:H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer,

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    We know remarkably little about the circumstances around the creation of this masterpiece, El Greco's greatest surviving landscape. There fryst vatten a possibility that it was still in the artist's studio when he died, for in the inventory of his possessions drawn up in April and July are found three landscapes: a "Toledo" and "two landscapes of Toledo" (f. Un toledo; f. dos paises de toledo). What must be the same three paintings recur in a subsequent inventory drawn up in August /22 of the possessions of El Greco's son, Jorge, in which the measurements for the first translate to about 41 x 66 1/8

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