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GREECE : 2 Euros ( Greek  Coin ) 

Special  issue B-UNC

YEAR : 2014

This coin is  COMMEMORATIVE

for  the  400  years   from  the  death 

of  Dominikos Theotokopoulos

" EL  GRECO " .

RRR : Extremely Rare !!!

Coin designed by :  G. Stamatopoulos

Date  of  Issue : 24 September 2014

Only  754.000  pieces

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2 euros -  Domenikos  Theotokopoulos


El Greco, born Doménikos Theotokópoulos (1541 – 7 April 1614), was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" (The Greek) was a nickname, a reference to his national Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος(Doménikos Theotokópoulos), often adding the word Κρής (Krēs, "Cretan").

El Greco was born in Crete, which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, and the center of Post-Byzantine art. He trained and became a master within that tradition before traveling at age 26 to Venice, as other Greek artists had done. In 1570 he moved to Rome, where he opened a workshop and executed a series of works. During his stay in Italy, El Greco enriched his style with elements of Mannerism and of the Venetian Renaissance. In 1577, he moved to Toledo, Spain, where he lived and worked until his death. In Toledo, El Greco received several major commissions and produced his best-known paintings.

El Greco's dramatic and expressionistic style was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries but found appreciation in the 20th century. El Greco is regarded as a precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism, while his personality and works were a source of inspiration for poets and writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke and Nikos Kazantzakis. El Greco has been characterized by modern scholars as an artist so individual that he belongs to no conventional school. He is best known for tortuously elongated figures and often fantastic or phantasmagorical pigmentation, marrying Byzantine traditions with those of Western painting.

 
The Holy Family with Ann and St. John. 


Christ on the Cross.
Louvre museum



His Art 

El Greco's art is the product of both his time and his genius.
The artistic currents and the places he visited, are reflected in his work. It is more difficult to outline precisely the influence of the Cretan School in his work. It is certain that he was trained in the art of the icon in the Cretan style but his works shows most clearly an absolute dependence of the Venetian School of the sixteenth century.
The influence of Titian is obvious and there is also a heavy debt to Tintoretto, whose anti naturalistic style, above all, in dealing with the human figure, deeply influenced El Greco.
Without exaggerating one can estimate the number of El Greco's works at about 500.
There are some landscapes and a few portraits, but the vast majority are of religious themes:
"Assumption", "Holy Trinity", "St John the Evangelist", "St. Sebastian", "Saints Peter and Paul", "Christ embracing the Cross", "Resurrection", "Annunciation", "St. Andrew", "Pentecost", "Baptism of Christ"
The most illustrious of his paintings are "Burial of the Conde de Orgaz", El Espolio", "Martyrdom of St. Maurice", "Laocoon", "Vision of Apocalypse" and "View of Toledo".

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Diameter

25.75 mm

Thickness

2.20 mm

Weight

8.50 gr

Composition

 Ring Cupronickel (75% copper - 25% nickel clad on nickel core), center Nickel brass (75% copper - 20% zinc - 5% nickel)

Edge

Edge lettering (Hellenic Republic), fine milled

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Condition :

The coin characterized :  B-Unc. 

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