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