el greco
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EL GRECO(1541 – 1614)
400 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH
David Oistrakh: M.de Falla-Spanish Dance
Author: Beatrice V
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El Greco, born Doménikos Theotokópoulos (1541 – 7 April 1614), was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" (The Greek) was a nickname,a reference to his national Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in
Greek letters, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος (Doménikos Theotokópoulos), often adding the
word Κρής (Krēs, "Cretan").
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El Greco was born in Crete, which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, and the center of Post-
Byzantine art. He trained and became a master within that tradition before travelling at age 26 to Venice, as
other Greek artists had done. In 1570 he moved to Rome, where he opened a workshop and executed a
series of works. During his stay in Italy, El Greco enriched his style with elements of Mannerism and of
the Venetian Renaissance. In 1577, he moved to Toledo, Spain, where he lived and worked until his death. In Toledo, El Greco received several major
commissions and produced his best-known paintings.
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