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ელ გრეკო 1541–1614
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Doménikos Theotokópoulos, known to history as El Greco, began his life in 1541 on the island of Crete. At that time, the island was a Venetian possession, a fact that would later allow him to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western traditions. In the Venetian Republic, he encountered the works of Titian and Tintoretto, absorbing their mastery of color and the use of light to define form.