El Greco - The Last Supper Canvas Print

The Last Supper by El Greco. Great painting titled The Last Supper, made by El Greco. About El Greco El Greco was born on Crete, which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, and the centre of Post-Byzantine art. He trained and became a master within that tradition before travelling at age 26 to Venice, as other Greek artists had done. El Greco received his initial training as an icon painter of the Cretan school, the leading centre of post-Byzantine art. In addition to painting, he probably studied the classics of ancient Greece, and perhaps the Latin classics also; he left a "working library" of 130 books at his death, including the Bible in Greek and an annotated Vasari.The primacy of imagination and intuition over the subjective character of creation was a fundamental principle of El Greco's style.