The unique El Greco vision To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541­-1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, but stubborn in the pursuit of his own path....

A prophet of modernism. Strong colours and sinuous figures. El Greco was born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Crete in 1541. He arrived in Venice in 1566, where his work was greatly influenced by Titian and Tintoretto....