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Greco   /grˈɛkoʊ/   Listen
Greco

noun
1.
Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614).  Synonyms: Domenikos Theotocopoulos, El Greco.



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"Greco" Quotes from Famous Books



... leads us to suspect in these sculptured subjects the influence of the doctrine of those Chaldean astrologists who had spread themselves, during the later centuries before the Christian era, throughout the Greco-Roman world, and had acquired an especial amount of credit in Rome. Nevertheless, the date of these last monuments renders it possible to look upon the representation of the first pair beside the tree ...
— The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 • Various

... ago; and while the embers of the last Greco-Turkish struggle, still white, were scarcely cold on the plain of Marathon. The time since passed has yielded fresh proof in support of this harsh judgment; for, if there is one historical law better and more irreversibly established than another, it is that, in the case of nations even more than ...
— "Imperialism" and "The Tracks of Our Forefathers" • Charles Francis Adams

... live on in England are obsolete in France. Chime is Old Fr. chimbe from Greco-Lat. cymbalum. Minsheu (1617) derived dismal from Lat. dies mali, evil days. This, says Trench, "is exactly one of those plausible etymologies which one learns after a while to reject with contempt." ...
— The Romance of Words (4th ed.) • Ernest Weekley



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