With his unmistakeable style, Doménikos Theotokópoulos, widely known as El Greco, created an original iconographic universe that still remains fully relevant today due to its originality and its evocative power. His paintings boast their own particular style and a technical skill that makes El Greco the most original artist of his time.

El Greco is considered as one of the great icons of the history of art and his evolution started off in Crete and Italy. These places would mark his apprenticeship period, in which he learned how to master the formulas devised by the great masters of Renaissance art, such as Titian and Michelangelo. El Greco would then fall under the influence of Mannerism, of which the artist would carry out an autonomous and personal interpretation, providing the unmistakeable sign of identity to his works.

But it was in Spain, and concretely in Toledo, where the painter reached artistic maturity and carried out the most emblematic works of his career. The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest or The Assumption of the Virgin are some of the most important paintings by El Greco during this period of artistic consolidation.

This book published by Dosde gathers together El Greco's main works and carries out a detailed study of the painter's evolution, since his formative years in Greece until his consolidation as an artistic genius during his time in Spain. Its pages closely analyse his paintings, the iconography of his paintings and the main characteristics of El Greco's original style. Thanks to this, the reader is provided with a complete portrait of the great Mannerist painter, a unique artist that left an indelible mark on modern art. A book that belongs to our collection of art books.