El Greco was a renowned Greek painter, sculptor and architect from the Spanish Renaissance period who lived from 1541 to 1614. He was born in Crete but received artistic training in the post-Byzantine tradition before traveling to Venice and Rome, where he incorporated elements of Mannerism and the Venetian Renaissance into his style. In 1577, El Greco settled in Toledo, Spain, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life, receiving major commissions and creating his most famous paintings.

1. EL GRECO
(1541 – 1614)
400 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH
David Oistrakh: M.de Falla-Spanish Dance
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2. 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

3. El Greco was born in Crete, which was at that time part
of the Republic of Venice, and the center of PostByzantine 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