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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: El Greco, Lancelot Voisin de La Popeliniere, Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Pierre Charron, Robert Beale, Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, Saul Wahl, Jakub Wujek, Guy Lefevre de la Boderie, Infante Edward, 5th Duke of Guimaraes, Michele Bonelli, David Gans, Georg Braun, Filippo di Piero Strozzi, Edmund Prys, Hernando de Lerma, Guobrandur orlaksson, Menso Alting, Margaret Fiennes, 11th Baroness Dacre, John Leonardi, Stephan Szanto, Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, Paolo Giordano I Orsini, Thomas Parry, Daniel Tossanus, Hernando de Cabezon, Manuel da Costa, Philip II, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels, Johann Bauhin, Hatano Hideharu, Michele Mercati, Chen Di, Mary FitzAlan, Jacopo Zucchi, Florent Chrestien, Henry Grey, 6th Earl of Kent, Antonmaria Sauli, Aziz Mahmud Hudayi, Girolamo Macchietti, Mary Livingston, Takeda Nobuchika, Jogvan Heinason, Magdalena Moons, H j Ujikuni, Abe Masakatsu, Mustafa Ali, Mizuno Tadashige, Yi Gwang, Yamayoshi Toyomori, Yi Chong, Maeba Yoshitsugu, Aoki Kazunori. Excerpt: El Greco (1541 - April 7, 1614) was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" (The Greek) was a nickname, a reference to his ethnic Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, (Domenikos Theotokopoulos). El Greco was born on Crete, which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, and the centre of Post-Byzantine art. He trained and became a master within that tradition before travelling at age 26 to Venice, as other Greek artists had done. In 1570 he moved to Rome, where he opened a workshop and executed a series of works. During his stay in Italy, El Greco enriched his style with elements of Mannerism and of the Venetian Renaissance. In 1577, he moved to Toledo, Spain, where he live...
