in Greece. He became a master draftsman in Greece. In 1559, at the age of
18, he left Crete to study in Venice. There he studied for 10 years, and for 7
more years he studied in Rome. In 1577, after 17 years in Italy, he went to
Spain seeking patronage. Spain’s King Philip II was hiring artists to work on
the palace and monastery of the Escorial. In Spain, he did most of h
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