Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God’s careless splatters.
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| Birth: | 1541 |
| Death: | 7th April, 1614 |
| Nationality: | Greek |
| Profession: | Painter |
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Doménikos Theotokópoulos, most widely known as El Greco was born in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. He was a Greek painter. In 1570 he moved to Rome, where he opened a workshop and executed a series of works. In 1577, he moved to Toledo, Spain, where he lived and worked until his death. In Toledo, he received several major commissions and produced his best-known paintings. He is best known for tortuously elongated figures and often fantastic or phantasmagorical pigmentation, marrying Byzantine traditions with those of Western painting.
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