Greco, El

   (1541-1614)

Greco, El (Domenikos Theotocopoulos) (1541-1614) Known as "The Greek," his
early works show his wide range of sources -- Titian, Michelangelo, Raphael,
Durer -- and, underlying all these, Goya's Byzantine heritage. It is not known
why he went to Spain, but he is recorded in Toledo from 1577 until his death,
where his ecstatic and passionate style became heightened with time, often
increasing with successive repetitions of a subject, and so personal that his
pupils and assistants did not even attempt to follow his

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