#domeniko

[lionofchaeronea]

St. Veronica with the Holy Face, El Greco, ca. 1580

[psikonauti]

El Greco (Greek, 1541-1614)

Laocoön, 1604-1614

oil on canvas

[lightthereis]

El Greco, Domenikos Theotokopoulos – Christ in Prayer, 1595-97

[introspect-la]

LADY IN A FUR WRAP BY EL GRECO (DOMENIKOS THEOTOKOPOULOS) (1577-1579)

[rerenikos-sweetheart]

life or euthanasia for pierre-auguste renoir <3

[carloskaplan]

Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco): San Pedro (1608) no Mosterio de San Lourenzo do Escorial

[gemsofgreece]

im looking forward to studying Modern Greek language and culture at university, and simply love your blog. i have fallen in love with this mysterious beauty! which parts of Greek culture, whether it be literature, art, history, schools of thought, anything at all, would you recommend me to look at in further depth? something less talked about, or more niche perhaps? much love x

Ohhh wishing you the best in your future studies! Hoping you will have a great time!

Some recs of things I personally enjoy from the Modern Greek culture, they are subjective, I have mentioned most before, so I am technically playing the broken record again!

Entechno, Rembetiko and classic Laiko music genres. Check the composers Mikis Theodorakis, Manos Hatzidakis, Markos Vamvakaris, Vassilis Tsitsanis and Stavros Xarhakos as a start. But I doubt you won’t learn about them through your studies anyway.

Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) is my favourite artist but a lot of modern(er) Greek art is very interesting actually

Alexandros Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis in literature

Erotokritos, both the poetry and the music and all its folk impact

Odysseus Elytis, Giannis Ritsos, Constantine Cavafy and Nikos Kavvadias poetry

I can’t not say the Greek Revolution but I doubt you can escape it in your studies anyway. Also the Axis Occupation Resistance, the Pontic Greek genocide and the population exchange with Turkey. But you will learn about all this, I believe. Check also about the civil war, which I am not sure they will teach you about at length. And the military junta.

Ioannis Kapodistrias and Eleftherios Venizelos as political profile studies. Check out those of Konstantinos Karamanlis and Andreas Papandreou as well if you are interested in politics, not because they were anywhere near as great as the former two but to explore the unbelievable impact they still have in Greek society.

Doesn’t matter if you are Christian or not, I really like Byzantine ecclesiastical music and architecture from an aesthetical standpoint so I recommend

Byzantine and Modern Greek folk fashion

Check out Georgios Gemistus Plethon, the Byzantine Greek Neoplatonic philosopher

Would I deviate if I just said Byzantine history? Oh well. It’s fascinating to explore the “relics” of Byzantium in the collective Modern Greek conscience.

Easter and Carnival traditions, their origins, historical evolution and practice today

Golden age cinema comedies (50s - 70s)

Watch the Island once you can understand Greek well (if you don’t already) or find English subtitles. It’s such a perfect and accurate window to Greek ethos in the first decades of the 20th century

Watch TV comedies of the 90s and 00s.

That might be harder to explore but I like the significance of Epitheórisi (Revue) as a theatrical genre in Greece. In general, check the tradition and huge presence of satire and satire comedians in Modern Greek society. Political correctness has made satire shrink drastically but I think it has an interesting history throughout the 20th century and first years of the 21st.

If you are interested in a school of thought, check out the work of the philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997)

If you don’t speak Greek yet, some of the recs are more niche than others and you will probably have to wait to be somewhat fluent in Greek before you can explore them properly. But music, art, philosophy… you can start with these. As for the history, you can also start, but make sure to also read Greek historiography once you know Greek better because… well.

[xpuigc-bloc]

The Vision of Saint John

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Greek, ca. 1608–14

This work is a fragment from a large altarpiece made for the church of the hospital of Saint John the Baptist in Toledo. It depicts an apocalyptic moment at the biblical end of time, based on the book of Revelation (6:9–11), a subject perfectly suited to El Greco’s visionary palette and otherworldly forms. Many avant-garde painters studied El Greco’s canvas while it was in Paris between 1907 and 1909. Pablo Picasso was directly inspired by the dramatic figures in this work for his landmark painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907; Museum of Modern Art, New York).

Title: The Vision of Saint John

Date: ca. 1608–14

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 87 1/2 x 76 in. (222.3 x 193 cm); with added strips 88 1/2 x 78 1/2 in. (224.8 x 199.4 cm) [top truncated]

Classification: Paintings

#el greco #artist painter #original art

#art #xpuigc

[eddy25960]

Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco)- San Pietro -1608-Monasterio San Lorenzo del Escorial

[nancydrewwouldnever]

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), View of Toledo, ca. 1599-1600, oil/canvas (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

[psikonauti]

El Greco (Greek, 1541-1614)

Fábula, 1600

oil on canvas

[lightthereis]

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) - The Entombment Of Christ

[council-of-beetroot]

I love the reasoning writers of human AUs will justify Feliks calling Tolys Liet

"Like oh you're from lithuania? I'll call you Liet" as if there is any probability of him actually knowing the word for Lithuania in Lithuanian.

I mean people called Domenikos Theotokopoulos "El Greco" for a reason so maybe it's not too much of a stretch to call Tolvydas Laurinaitis "Liet" in a human au but jury's out

[rerenikos-sweetheart]

niko edit by me :3 i love him so much i reread his birthday story not so long ago and ngssgagbffhhhhh he makes me SICK ( affectionately ) I want to give my soul to him so that we could be together forever and everrrrr

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), Pentecost (Toledo 1600). This work depicts the moment when the Holy Ghost, in the form of flames, rests on the Virgin and the Apostles on Pentecost day in Jerusalem, as is told in the book of Acts (2: 1-5). The bald, bearded Apostle who looks out at the viewer from the right of the canvas has been identified as a self-portrait, or as a portrait of the artist´s friend, Antonio de Covarrubias. Along with other paintings in the Prado Museum (P00821, P00823, P00825, P03888), this work was painted as part of the main altarpiece for the church of the Augustine College of María de Aragón in Madrid. A sketch or autograph reduction can be found in the Zogheb collection in Paris. The signature is on the second step, in Greek letters. It was redone during an old restoration.

In 1596 El Greco was commissioned to paint the high altar of the Colegio de la Encarnación (Madrid), an Augustinian seminary better known by the name of its founder, Doña María de Córdoba y Aragón (1539-1593).

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Pentecost is an invitation to dream. For when a community of faith quits dreaming dreams, it has little to offer either its members or the wider world.

Like any good dream, these dreams involve adopting a new perspective on what's possible, rousing our creativity to free us from conventional expectations. They help us see that maybe what we thought was outlandish actually lies within reach. Maybe I can find freedom from what binds me. Maybe there can be justice. Maybe I can make a difference. Maybe a person's value isn't determined by her income. Maybe the future of our economy or our society or our planet is not yet determined. Maybe God is here with me, even if my current struggles never go away.

~ Matthew L. Skinner, a professor of New Testament at Luther Seminary Illustration : What We Do For Love ~ Catherine G Mcelroy [h/t Paul Corby]

[eucanthos]

El Greco   (GR, 1541 - 1614)

Domenikos Theotokopoulos

Laocoön, c. 1610-14. Oil on canvas 137.5 × 172.5 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (always free admission)

This is the only classical theme he is known to have painted.

Did El Greco intend to relate the theme’s suffering and divine retribution to the Inquisition then raging in Toledo?

Serpents, sent by the angry gods, engage w Laocoön and one son in a mortal struggle, while the second son lies already dead. The silent observers on the right are perhaps Apollo, Artemis and an unfinished other god looking away.

The ghost-like elongated figures w sinuous outlines, became El Greco’s unique style of breaking the harmony of Renaissance ideals and moving to Mannerism (and beyond)

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.33253.html

https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/el-greco-paintings/laocoon