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GRECO, El: Portrait of a Man

GRECO, El
🖼 Portrait of a Man, 1595-1600
Oil on canvas
53 × 47 cm
New York, United States

Piercing dark eyes dominate an elongated face rendered in cool grays and blacks, the figure's austere gaze meeting ours directly. El Greco's characteristic spiritual intensity and distorted proportions exemplify Spanish Mannerism's rejection of Renaissance naturalism, establishing psychological depth over physical accuracy.

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