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Article: El Greco
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El Greco , c.1541-1614, Greek painter in Spain, b. Candia (Iráklion), Crete. His real name was Domenicos Theotocopoulos, of which several Italian and Spanish versions are current.
Trained first in the Byzantine school of icon painting, in 1567 he went to Venice, where he is known to have studied under
Titian
; thereafter (1570-77) he painted in Rome. By late 1577, El Greco was established in Toledo and at work on the altar of the Church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo. The center painting of this group, the
Assumption,
now in the Art Institute of Chicago, shows marked Italian influence. His next great works,
El espolio de las vestiduras
(cathedral, Toledo) and
San Mauricio
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