This man was fiercely critical of Michelangelo, calling him a "good man" who "did not know how to paint" and offering to Pope Pius V to paint over The Last Judgment, while working in Rome.
This man showed the title saint writing in an open book atop a table draped in a sumptuous red and gold cloth in his Miracle of St. Ildefonso. This man was fiercely critical of Michelangelo, calling him a "good man" who "did not know how to paint" and offering to Pope Pius V to paint over The Last Judgment, while working in Rome. One of this man's paintings, whose top part shows an enthroned Christ above a Madonna and John the Baptist in an example of the deesis, illustrates a legend in which Saints Stephen and Ambrose (*) descended to earth during the title event. This artist, who showed a heavenly scene above a funeral of a nobleman in his Burial of the Count of Orgaz, painted two "views" of his adopted hometown of Toledo. For 10 points, identify this Spanish painter whose nickname derives from his origins on the island of Crete.
This man showed the title saint writing in an open book atop a table draped in a sumptuous red and gold cloth in his Miracle of St. Ildefonso.
El Greco [or Doménikos Theotokópoulos; prompt on "(The) Greek"]