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El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) was born on the Venetian-ruled island of Crete, where he learned icon painting before leaving at the age of about 25 for further training in Venice.

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Here he absorbed the fundamentals of Venetian painting, studied some of the great Venetian altarpieces, and admired the work of Tintoretto (1518-94) and Jacopo Bassano (1515-92). In 1570 he moved to Rome, where he joined the progressive circle of intellectuals that congregated at the Palazzo Farnese. He also studied the Mannerism of Michelangelo (1475-1564) and Parmigianino (1503-40).

Then in 1577 he left Italy for Spain, where he quickly settled in Toledo, the religious capital of Spain and a centre of spiritual mysticism. Within a few years he established a