The Palazzo Reale is hosting the largest-ever retrospective of works made in Italy by el Greco (1541-1614), born Doménikos Theotokópoulos in Crete, then part of the Venetian Republic, where he learned to paint Byzantine icons.
El Greco (1541-1614), Saint Martin and the Beggar, oil on canvas, 194 x 103 cm/76.37 x 40.55 in., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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