El Greco adopted his elongated and encompassing style from the mannerists.
What is mannerism?
Mannerism is a habitual gesture, speech pattern, or method of behaving.
Mannerism is characterized by slender, extended limbs, splayed, twisting, and turning bodies that defy the standard notions of proportion.
El Greco is a Spanish painter.
He used mannerism in his paintings, his paintings includes elongated figures, pigmentations.
Thus, the correct option is a, humanists.
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