Эль Греко

In history (and especially in the history of culture) there are outstanding personalities whose biographies, like invisible threads, are sewn together into a single whole spiritual space of the West and East. One of these personalities was Domenikos Theotokopoulos, a brilliant painter and sculptor, better known to us as El Greco (1541-1614). His fate is made up of vivid fragments - childhood and youth spent in Crete, a period of study in the workshop of Titian in Venice, an active creative search, which the artist devoted himself to in Rome, moving to Spain and, finally, almost four decades of life in Toledo, which brought glory to the Cretan and immortality. The book outlines the main events of El Greco's biography, including those based on recent discoveries, and also attempts to answer the question why the genius of the master, whom his contemporaries called simply "Greek", still excites the viewer, fascinates and makes you think, what is the meaning of true creativity.