El Greco | St. Matthew | European Art & Sculpture

European Painting and Sculpture Before 1800

Provenance

St. Matthew

Artist Workshop of El Greco
     nationality Greek
     birth-death 1541-1614
Artist El Greco
     nationality Greek
     birth-death 1541-1614
Creation date about 1610-1614
Materials oil on canvas
Dimensions 28 1/4 x 21 5/8 in.
Location Spanish gallery
Credit line The Clowes Collection
Accession number 2007.53

Gallery Label

Domenikos Theotokopolous, known as El Greco (the Greek), was a native of the island of Crete. He was trained there as a painter of icons, before going to Venice (by 1568) and reinventing himself as a Renaissance painter under the influence of Titian and Tintoretto. After nearly a decade in Italy, El Greco established himself in the Spanish city of Toledo and radically transformed his art yet again.

Crete gave him life, and Toledo his brushes . . .
-Fray Hortensio Félix Paravicino, Obras posthumas divinas y humanas, 1641

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