Intellectual Pioneers, Commemorative Issue
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Intellectual Pioneers, Commemorative Issue
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Δominikos Theotokopoulos famously known as “El Greco” was born in 1541 in Candia, Crete. As a young icon painter
he left his native land c.1567 and travelled to Venice. There he adopted Catholicism and probably became a pupil of Titian. He moved to Rome where his critical attitude to Michaelangelo’s works did not endear him to the local art world. A friendly Cardinal invited him to travel to Spain where he settled in the city of Toledo until his death in 1614.
For two and a half centuries after his death, critics and other contemporary painters gave little credence to his works and thought of him as unlikely to deserve more than a footnote in history. He had failed to win the King’s favour for the manner in which he portrayed theological tenets and received no more commissions from the Toledo Cathedral. In 2004, a previously unknown painting of his “The Baptism of Christ” fetched 789,250 Pounds at Christie’s auction.
El Greco’s patrons were private chapels and smaller religious institutions that allowed him to develop his unique style of painting. It was not until the 19th century that El Greco was recognized as one of the great prophets of modern art. His most famous painting “The Burial of Count Orgas” is now in the Church of St. Tome in Toledo.
The painting of St. Francis in Ecstasy (c.1585-1590) by El Greco can be viewed at the A.G.Leventis Gallery in Lefkosia.
El Greco was buried in Santo Dominigo el Antigao under the large “Adoration of the Shepherds” painted in 1612-14. The Church was destroyed in the 19th century and El Greco’s tomb was lost.
Galileo Galilei was born in 1546 in Pisa, Italy. He entered Pisa University but left without a degree in 1585. In 1592 he entered Padua University where as professor of mathematics he taught until 1610.
In 1609 having heard of the invention of the telescope in the Netherlands, he set about to build his own improved version. In 1610 he discovers Jupiter’s four moons and infers that the earth is not the centre of the universe.
In 1616 he was summoned by Cardinal Bellarmine and told that he must abandon any idea that the sun stood still and the earth revolved around it, and that he should refrain from teaching or defending such a view in writing or by word of mouth. But Galileo could not keep silent and in his book “Dialogue”, published in 1632, he mocked the Papal arguments that adhered to the Ptolemic model of the universe in which heavenly bodies orbit the earth. Galileo was threatened with torture and being burnt alive. Under duress he recanted. He was imprisoned in Rome and later sent to an enforced internal exile to the Tuscan hills where he was able to continue his research.
His methods permanently changed the practice of science for which he has been called “The father of Science”. Andrew Marr, in his book “A History of the World” wrote: “Rough and garrulous Galileo of Pisa, born at the right time to understand the solar system; born in the wrong place to explain how it works”.
he left his native land c.1567 and travelled to Venice. There he adopted Catholicism and probably became a pupil of Titian. He moved to Rome where his critical attitude to Michaelangelo’s works did not endear him to the local art world. A friendly Cardinal invited him to travel to Spain where he settled in the city of Toledo until his death in 1614.
For two and a half centuries after his death, critics and other contemporary painters gave little credence to his works and thought of him as unlikely to deserve more than a footnote in history. He had failed to win the King’s favour for the manner in which he portrayed theological tenets and received no more commissions from the Toledo Cathedral. In 2004, a previously unknown painting of his “The Baptism of Christ” fetched 789,250 Pounds at Christie’s auction.
El Greco’s patrons were private chapels and smaller religious institutions that allowed him to develop his unique style of painting. It was not until the 19th century that El Greco was recognized as one of the great prophets of modern art. His most famous painting “The Burial of Count Orgas” is now in the Church of St. Tome in Toledo.
The painting of St. Francis in Ecstasy (c.1585-1590) by El Greco can be viewed at the A.G.Leventis Gallery in Lefkosia.
El Greco was buried in Santo Dominigo el Antigao under the large “Adoration of the Shepherds” painted in 1612-14. The Church was destroyed in the 19th century and El Greco’s tomb was lost.
Galileo Galilei was born in 1546 in Pisa, Italy. He entered Pisa University but left without a degree in 1585. In 1592 he entered Padua University where as professor of mathematics he taught until 1610.
In 1609 having heard of the invention of the telescope in the Netherlands, he set about to build his own improved version. In 1610 he discovers Jupiter’s four moons and infers that the earth is not the centre of the universe.
In 1616 he was summoned by Cardinal Bellarmine and told that he must abandon any idea that the sun stood still and the earth revolved around it, and that he should refrain from teaching or defending such a view in writing or by word of mouth. But Galileo could not keep silent and in his book “Dialogue”, published in 1632, he mocked the Papal arguments that adhered to the Ptolemic model of the universe in which heavenly bodies orbit the earth. Galileo was threatened with torture and being burnt alive. Under duress he recanted. He was imprisoned in Rome and later sent to an enforced internal exile to the Tuscan hills where he was able to continue his research.
His methods permanently changed the practice of science for which he has been called “The father of Science”. Andrew Marr, in his book “A History of the World” wrote: “Rough and garrulous Galileo of Pisa, born at the right time to understand the solar system; born in the wrong place to explain how it works”.
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Cyprus Post, Republic of Cyprus
Κυπριακά Ταχυδρομεία, Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία
Κυπριακά Ταχυδρομεία, Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία
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2014CS247, 2014CS248, 2014CS249, 2014CS250
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Κυπριακά Ταχυδρομεία, Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία, “Intellectual Pioneers, Commemorative Issue,” Αψίδα, accessed April 18, 2024, https://apsida.cut.ac.cy/items/show/44245.