Greco. Chypre Chapter I: History of the

Chapter I: History of the Protectorate

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“Art and Artists” Collection

In the European imagination

Greco. Chypre Chapter I: History of theBorn in 1541 in Crete, Domenico Theotokopoulos, known as Greco, received his first apprenticeship in the Byzantine tradition before completing his training in Venice and then in Rome. However, it was in Spain that his art flourished and took root permanently from the 1570s onwards. Attracted by the magnificent promise of the Escorial construction site, the artist imported to the peninsula the color of Titian, the audacity of Tintoretto, and the