Written in French. Born in 1541 in Crete, Domenico Theotokopoulos, known as Greco, made 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 in the 1570s. Attracted by the magnificent promises of the Escorial construction site, the artist imported into the peninsula the colour of Titian, the audacity of Tintoretto and the plastic strength of Michelangelo. This synthesis, original but consistent with his trajectory, gives the Greco, who died four years after Caravaggio, a
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