All 13 Uses
El Greco
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Of Human Bondage
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- He stayed there three months, and he was returned with a name new to the young men: he had wonderful things to say of a painter called El Greco, who it appeared could only be studied in Toledo.†
Chpt 47-48El Greco = painter remembered for elongated human forms
- The greatest portrait painters have painted both, man and the intention of his soul; Rembrandt and El Greco; it's only the second-raters who've only painted man.†
Chpt 47-48
- Correctness is all very well: El Greco made his people eight feet high because he wanted to express something he couldn't get any other way.'†
Chpt 47-48 *
- "Damn El Greco,' said Lawson, "what's the good of jawing about a man when we haven't a chance of seeing any of his work?'†
Chpt 47-48
- Do you know El Greco?' he asked.†
Chpt 87-88
- El Greco was the painter of Toledo.†
Chpt 87-88
- It's a picture that El Greco painted of the city he loved, and it's truer than any photograph.†
Chpt 87-88
- I have an idea that when first El Greco came to the city it was by such a night, and it made so vehement an impression upon him that he could never get away from it.'†
Chpt 87-88
- El Greco was the painter of the soul; and these gentlemen, wan and wasted, not by exhaustion but by restraint, with their tortured minds, seem to walk unaware of the beauty of the world; for their eyes look only in their hearts, and they are dazzled by the glory of the unseen.†
Chpt 87-88
- Athelny spoke of the mystical writers of Spain, of Teresa de Avila, San Juan de la Cruz, Fray Luis de Leon; in all of them was that passion for the unseen which Philip felt in the pictures of El Greco: they seemed to have the power to touch the incorporeal and see the invisible.†
Chpt 87-88
- The pictures of El Greco explained them, and they explained the pictures.†
Chpt 87-88
- He wanted to see the pictures which he knew only from photographs; he felt deeply that El Greco held a secret of peculiar moment to him; and he fancied that in Toledo he would surely find it out.†
Chpt 93-94
- He saw himself lingering in Cordova on the bridge that spanned the Gaudalquivir; he wandered through tortuous streets in Toledo and sat in churches where he wrung from El Greco the secret which he felt the mysterious painter held for him.†
Chpt 107-108
Definitions:
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(1)
(El Greco) Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)