Greco. Chypre scene of agricultural life in

scene of agricultural life in the Old and Middle Kingdom

in its transformation by fire

In the European imagination

“Art and Artists” Collection

Greco. Chypre scene of agricultural life inBorn in 1541 in Crete, Domenico Theotokopoulos, known as Greco, received his first apprenticeship in the Byzantine tradition before completing his training in Venice and then in Rome. However, it was in Spain that his art flourished and took root permanently from the 1570s onwards. Attracted by the magnificent promise of the Escorial construction site, the artist imported to the peninsula the color of Titian, the audacity of Tintoretto, and the