Talk:El Greco

message: "he refuted Vitruvius' attachment to archaeological remains ..."
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No he did not, he may have criticised it. AnnaComnemna (talk) 02:35, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Architecture and sculpture 

message: I can't find a single trustworthy source that explains how the nickname "El Greco" is Italian... I raised this complaint in the Spanish version of the article and no one payed much attention... The word Greco is Spanish, and seeing how it is preceded by the definite article "el", and seeing how El Greco's success was centered in Spain, it is most likely that the origins of the alias is Spanish...
"But the Spanish word for Greek is 'griego', not 'greco'..." The two words are synonyms (like the Netherlands and Holland). What happens is that most people who haven't read Siglo de Oro literature, even if their native language is Spanish, tend to have very wrong notions about the history of the language. Namely, they don't really get just how much the language has changed... So, while it is true that in an illiterate setting no Spanish speaker today uses the word "greco" meaning Greek, the word is in the DRAE. You may look it up. Latest edition.
And seeing how this word still exists even today, I think anyone who has read literature from El Greco's time (like, say, Don Quixote) won't have any trouble picturing the crazy, cool kids of the time preferring the demonym 'greco' instead of 'griego'. Then again what I'm pointing out is a matter of linguistic imagination. It is up to a historian to tell us where, as a matter of fact, did he get the nickname.
--Fdezcaminero (talk) 01:53, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest you read notes a and b. Johnbod (talk) 01:59, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nickname 

message: It has been hypothesised that El Greco’s pictures include a child with Cornelia de Lange syndrome. It is only a hypothesis. JDAWiseman (talk) 22:24, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cornelia de Lange syndrome 

message: There is a minor amount of uncited text, but considerable layout issues and MOS:SANDWICHing which should be addressed. SandyGeorgia (Talk)  17:30, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Sandy, points now being addressed. Ceoil (talk) 02:59, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:   - I'm looking over this for URFA, and it's looking in good shape, but it looks like some of the later footnotes are misplaced (like the marriage one comes after the "The phrase "sunk in eccentricity", often encountered in such texts, in time developed into "madness"" bit instead of the madness one).  I attempted a fix, but wound up breaking things.  Do you have any idea of how to fix that? Hog Farm  Talk 03:09, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Also, the statement  seems misplaced, as it's at the end of a section discussing historiography, not a single painting. Hog Farm  Talk 03:13, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: ??? The point surely is Carter's (speechwriter's) praise. Hog Farm, your comments on art articles are decidedly eccentric! Johnbod (talk) 04:28, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:   - my concern is primarily with the first sentence here .  Which painting is being referred to?  We're going straight from art criticism and speculation about his eyesight in the prior paragraph to a reference to "the painting" and a purchase.  I think the Carter quote fits in well, but the references here seem to be referring to a specific painting that it isn't clear what's being referred to.  Should the first sentence be removed, or is there something that got accidentally ommitted earlier? Hog Farm  Talk 04:41, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just added something there. Questionable whether this particular purchase needs to be mentioned at all. Ewulp (talk) 04:52, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

text: Agree with Ewulp that it could be taken out. Ceoil (talk) 17:27, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:URFA/2020]] 

message: The [a] note from the very opening of the article gives the IPA pronunciation of [el gre'ko] which I very much doubt is correct. The accent falls on the first syllable of Greco. I have changed it for now, even though the G may be pronounced as ɣ, so that's definitely worth taking a further look at. Splićanin (talk) 10:57, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nickname