El Greco To Move To Greece

El Greco was born in 1541 in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. He is one of the most recognized people from the renaissance and he was known to many as an artist but he is also an architect and a sculptor. His original name was Doménikos Theotokópoulos but he is widely and most famously known as El Greco which meant the greek in spanish. He was trained to be a painter when he was very young, later he moved to Venice because at that time Crete belonged to Venice. He then decided to move to Rome and lived there from 1570 to 1576 because he received a letter from a croatian miniaturist that gave him a secure place for him to work. In 1572 he joined the painter´s art academy and was known to have 2 assistants but he did not receive much work as he hoped
in Rome. In 1576 he decided to move to Spain and he failed to get his first bid with king Philip II. Things started to change when he moved to Toledo that people started admiring him and people started liking his paintings. During his time in Toledo they recognized him as a great artist and at his time there he made one of his most famous paintings the “View from Toledo“. In 1578 el Greco´s first child, Jorge Manuel. Some of the most famous paintings from El Greco were “The Burial of Count Orgaz“ in 1586, “Cleansing of the Temple“ in 1594, “Christ Healing the Blind“ and some others. In 1614 he was ill while working on a painting in a hospital and later died in April 7 of 1614