Self-Portrait_(El_Greco)

<i>Self-Portrait</i> (El Greco)

Self-Portrait (El Greco)

Painting by El Greco


Self-Portrait or Portrait of an Old Man is an oil-on-canvas painting by El Greco, dating to between 1595 and 1600 and usually identified as a self-portrait. It shows the influence of Titian and Tintoretto, whose works El Greco studied in Venice. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.[1]

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Bibliography

  • (in Spanish) ÁLVAREZ LOPERA, José, El Greco, Madrid, Arlanza, 2005, Biblioteca «Descubrir el Arte», (colección «Grandes maestros»). ISBN 84-9550-344-1.
  • (in Spanish) SCHOLZ-HÄNSEL, Michael, El Greco, Colonia, Taschen, 2003. ISBN 978-3-8228-3173-1.

References

  1. "Portrait of an Old Man". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 19 October 2018.

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