El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)
El Greco
Spanish, 1541 Domenikos Theotokopoulos was born ? He died in 1614
Domenikos Theotokopoulos, called El Greco, which means The Greek was born in 1541 in Candia , now Iraklion, the capital of Crete. In 1566 he was recorded in Candia as a master painter. He was an erudite man, whose taste for classical and contemporaneous literature seems to have developed in his youth.
El Greco probably went to Italy to master the modern Western Renaissance style. He is documented in August 1568 in Venice, where he remained until the autumn of 1570, when he went to Rome. The rich colors and the free handling of paint of Venetian painters profoundly influenced him, but there is no evidence to support the tradition that he was apprenticed to Titian.
In Rome, El Greco resided at least for a while at the Farnese Palace, where he became acquainted with the Farnese librarian, Fulvio Orsini, whose belief in the compatibility of art and scholarship seems to have profoundly influenced him. In 1572, El Greco was admitted to the Academy of Saint Luke as a miniature painter.
Unable to obtain major public commissions in Rome, El Greco signed a contract in 1576 in Rome for
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