El greco biography pdf download

Author: Nikolaos M.

Panagiotakes

Publisher: Routledge

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Category: History

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Exploring all the available sources, this study, which until now was only available in Greek, presents us with an account of El Greco's life up to the time he left Crete for Italy in at the age of twenty-six, already an accomplished professional painter.

Nikolaos Panagiotakes provides a thorough assessment of earlier research on Crete of the 16th century then goes on to present new conclusions on the life of El Greco deriving from the author's firsthand reading of Venetian archive material, including questions relating to his birthplace, family, name, religious affiliation, and apprenticeship as a painter.

The evidence indicates that El Greco was an established professional 'master painter' earlier than had previously been thought and also that he had a family