Greek artist, painter, sculptor and architect (1541–1614)
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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.
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 ce…
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On 7th April, 1614, died Domenico Greco. He left no will. He received the sacraments, was buried in Santo Domingo el Antiguo; and gave candles.
[El Greco 'confined to his bed'] ..holding, believing and confessing the Faith of the Holy Church of Rome..
..because in this way the form will be perfect and not reduced, which is the worst thing that can happen to a figure.
I am neither bound to say why I came to this city nor to answer the other questions put to me.
I hold the imitation of colour to be the greatest difficulty of art.
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