El Greco

He is survived by his disciples did not create its own school and never joined one of the artistic trends of that time, his art was not only wider limits of any national tradition, but far ahead of his time. A native of Crete, Dominikos Theotokopoulos was nicknamed Greek. It was under this name he went down in history of art. After fleeing from lawsuits from Crete, the artist worked for many years in Italy, and later settled in Spain, Toledo. About his life we know very little, did not survive a single reliable self-portrait, vanished from the tomb of his ashes, long destroyed the palace of the Marquis de Vileny, where he lived. And the art itself Toledo masters stayed in oblivion until the beginning of XX century. But the time has kept the most important - his paintings.