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The Repentant St. Peter  1605

by El Greco

Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) was born in Candia (Iráklion), Crete, in 1541, but little is known about his early life. He took up his vocation as a painter in Crete but around 1568 was in Venice, where he evidently studied the works of Jacopo Bassano, Tintoretto, Titian, and Veronese. Arriving in Rome in 1570, he became part of a circle of learned churchmen and other...
Size: 
93.7 x 75.2 cm (36 7/8 x 29 5/8 in)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons