El Greco Paintings
El Greco paintings are available to buy here with FREE international shipping, but why is this famous Greek artist so popular? This post takes a look at El Greco’s most famous paintings.
El Greco’s paintings are believed to have help seed new art movements such as Expressionism and Cubism. Greek artist El Greco spent a lot of time in Italy where he added influences to his existing techniques with elements of Mannerism and of the Venetian Renaissance.
El Greco’s dramatic, expressionistic and highly original style was not respected or understood by his contemporaries until around the 20th century when art styles and movements became more liberal and open minded, with original ideas and thinking encouraged.
Some of El Greco’s best paintings included all those below, please use the link at the start of this post to see a full gallery of his paintings.
- The Annunciation
- View of Toledo
- St. Sebastian
- Veronica
- The Knight with His Hand on His Breast
- The Holy Trinity
- The spoliation
- The Burial of Count Orgasz
- St. Andrew and St. Francis
- St. Francis kneeling in meditation
- St. Jerome, cardinal
- Julian Romero de las Azanas and St Julian
- Penance of Mary Magdalene
- Pieta
- St. Louis, King of France
- Via crucis
- Madonna and Child with St. Martina and St. Agnes
- St. Martin and the Beggar
- Baptism of Christ (Prado)
- St. John the Baptist
- St. Francis and the lay brother
- Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple
- Portrait of a Cardinal
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