El Greco

El Greco (1541-1614) was a painter of the so-called Counter-Reformation in which the Roman Catholic Church responded to the sweeping reforms demanded by the Protestant sects emerging in Europe (Adams, 312). He worked in Spain from about 1577 during the era in which Counter-Reformation influence was at its highest. According to H.W. Janson (467), the artist's early training in Venice established a strong element of Byzantine iconography and style within his work, which is often characterized as representative of the Mannerist style. Mannerism, as noted by Adams (306), had a strong propensity for virtuosity and artifice, but El Greco was placed passionately in the "service of Christian mystici

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