Identifier: dictionaryofpain05brya (find matches)
Title: Dictionary of painters and engravers
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bryan, Michael, 1757-1821 Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942
Subjects: Painters Engravers
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Grecos arrival in Spain,or the reasons that brought him there, and when,in a judicial writ served upon him in 1579 inconnection with the Espolio painted for theCathedra), he was asked whether he had beenbrought to Toledo to paint the reredos of theChurch of Santo Domingo el Viejo, then finishedand erected in the said Church, he replied that hewas neither bound to say why he came to thatcity nor to answer the other questions put to him.This document and the signature and date (1577)on the Assumption, the centre painting of thereredos, now at Aranjuez, and replaced by a poorcopy, and the items of the accounts relating tothe work in the new church, according to which Dominico Theotocopuli painted the eight pictureson the High Altar and side altars, receiving forthe whole 1000 ducats, are the earliest and onlyclues to the date at which he took up his residenceand work in Spain. He may possibly have beenattracted by the prospect of participating in the DOMENICO THEOTOCOPULI CALLKD EL GRECO
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M. Moreno, Madrid, photo) (Church of Santo Tomt, Toledo THE BURIAL OF THK COUNT OF ORGAZ PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS. decoration of the Escorial, which was in activeprogress in 1575, the then Spanish Ambassadorhaving recruited the first batch of workers inRome as early as 1567. Toledo was a homeeminently suited to one of El Grecos temperament,and he was the man to give to Toledo, alreadyrich in architecture, sculpture, &c, what shelacked in painting. El Greco was residing atToledo when Philip II. returned from Madrid withthe relics of San Eugenio and Santa Leocadia ; hewitnessed the expulsion of the Moors and experi-enced the workings of the Inquisition. Cervantes,Lope da Vega and Santa Teresa were amongst themany celebrities that lived at or passed throughToledo, and the cigarrales or orchards on theopposite bank of the Tagus formed the mostdelightful of meeting-places for those distinguishedmen. El Grecos first works in Toledo were thepaintings for the High Altar of Santo Domingo elA

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