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El Greco
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synonyms: Doménikos Theotokópoulos ???
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Definition:[1541 - 1614]an artist of the Spanish Renaissance best known for "torturously elongated figures". His favorite themes involved Christianity.
image 1: "View of Toledo" https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:El_Greco_003.jpg
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A few shops had begun renting pirated movies sent up from Fiji. These movies were typically recorded by a video camera in a movie theater, with the result that the actor's faces appeared strangely dull and elongated, as if the movie was filmed by El Greco.
J. Maarten Troost. The Sex Lives of Cannibals, p.92 (2004)
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Throughout the voyage to America, I used our stateroom mirror to note my uncanny physical resemblance to El Greco.
J.D. Salinger. Nine Stories: De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, p.132 (1948)
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In addition to this series of the works of Redon which adorned nearly every panel of the passage, he had hung a disturbing sketch by El Greco in his bedroom.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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it might be a stern El Greco horizon, pregnant with inky rain, and a passing glimpse of some mummy-necked farmer,
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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