El Greco - Tim Marlow TV - Andrew Graham-Dixon TV - Waldemar Januszczak TV -
Art is everywhere you look for it; hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters. El Greco
I hold the imitation of colour to be the greatest difficulty in art. El Greco
El Greco was a sixteenth-century maverick. A curious figure full of contradictions. He was a devout and orthodox Catholic but a radical artist. Great Artists with Tim Marlow s1e8: El Greco, Sky Arts 2003
By the time he was twenty-five El Greco had established himself, decorating churches and painting alter-pieces. ibid.
The greatest artist of the age, El Greco – the Greek. Andrew Graham-Dixon, The Art of Spain II: The Dark Art, BBC 2008
El Greco: Teledo ... One of the first landscapes in Western art without any figures in it. Waldemar Januszczak, Art’s Wildest Movement: Mannerisms III: The Great Escape, Sky Arts 2024
He started out as an icon painter. ibid.