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From Crete to Italy and Spain
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Dominico Theotokopoulos was born in Heraklio, Crete in 1541. His father was a merchant and he had an older brother Manouso
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He became an icon painter using the byzantine style but he was also influenced by the Italian Renaissance painters.
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El Greco left Crete and went to Venice where he worked with Tiziano and Tintoretto. Later he moved to Rome.
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He moved to Spain. He lived in Madrid at first and then he settld down in Toledo where he created most of his great works
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His only son was born in Toledo in 1578 and he became a painter too.
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He created his best work ''The burial of the Count of Orgaz'' in Toledo.
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Dominicos Theotokopoulos died in Toledo in 1614. He is known with the name El Greco (The Greek).
