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Theotocopuli (Teoscopoli) Domenico (El Greco)
painter, sculptor, and architect; b. 1548 (in Greece, or perhaps in Venice) ; d. 1625.
A pupil of Titian in Venice, and in 1577 was in Spain painting altar pieces in the style of Titian. He designed the church of the Caridad and the city hall at Toledo, Spain, the church of the college of Doņa Maria de Arragon at Madrid, the church of the Franciscan Monastery at Illescas, with the marble tombs of its founders which have been destroyed.
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