El Greco
El Greco's elongated, ghostly figures twist in impossible spirals. Colours are cold and unearthly — acid yellows, steel blues, silver greys — with eerie, non-natural light and a mystical, hallucinatory fervour.
El Greco (1541–1614) was a painter from Spain, associated with Mannerism.
A late-Renaissance style of elongated figures, complex spiralling poses, and unnatural colour, prizing elegance and tension over calm harmony. Mannerism →
More Mannerism painters: Tintoretto, Pontormo, Bronzino, Parmigianino.
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