El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos)

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The Disrobing of Christ by El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos)

El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos) (1541-1614)
The Disrobing of Christ (Ca. 1606/08)

Canvas, 165 x 98,8 cm
Acquired in 1909 on the French art market
Inv. no. 8573

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El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos) (1541-1614)

(Real name, Domenikos Theotokopoulos). Spanish painter, born in 1541 in Phodele near Heraklion on Crete, where he made a name for himself at an early age as a painter of icon-like pictures of the Madonna. After the death of his father, he moved to Venice in 1566, where he became a pupil of Titian and was influenced by Tintoretto and Bassano. After a three-year apprenticeship, he travelled to Rome; here the impact of Michelangelo was to have a lasting effect on him. A second stay in Venice ended with his flight to Spain in 1576 in the face of the plague. He lived in Toledo from 1577 until his death in 1614.