# El Greco

> A Greek painter who signed his canvases in Greek letters and settled in Toledo, where he spent nearly four decades stretching bodies into impossible lengths and drenching them in colors his own century didn't understand.

*Greek artist, painter, sculptor and architect (1541–1614)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Artist
- **Category:** Artists
- **Born:** 1541-10-01
- **Died:** 1614-04-07
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Doménikos Theotokópoulos was born in Crete on 1 October 1541, when the island was Venetian and the center of Post-Byzantine art. He mastered that tradition, then left at 26 for Venice, moved to Rome in 1570, opened a workshop, and absorbed what Tintoretto and Titian had to teach about Mannerism and the Venetian Renaissance. In 1577 he relocated to Toledo, Spain, and stayed until his death on 7 April 1614, producing his best-known work — View of Toledo, Opening of the Fifth Seal — and a run of major commissions. His contemporaries found his dramatic, expressionistic manner puzzling; the 20th century saw him as a forerunner of Expressionism and Cubism, an artist who belonged to no school and inspired Rilke and Kazantzakis. He married Byzantine roots to Western painting and left behind tortuously elongated figures in phantasmagorical pigmentation.

## Fame
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- **Category rank:** #51

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