16th century in Greece

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Chapters: 16th-century Greek people, El Greco, Constantine Lascaris, Demetrios Chalkokondyles, Leo Allatius, Francesco Maurolico, Antonio Vassilacchi, Juan de Fuca, Amato Lusitano, Constantine Corniaktos, Ioannis Kottounios, Maximus the Greek, Leonardos Philaras, Handan Sultan, Sophia Palaiologina, Ioan Iacob Heraclid, Ottoman-Venetian War, Koinon of the Zagorisians, Gülbahar Sultan, Michael Damaskinos, Zacharias Calliergi, Thomas Flanginis, Janus Lascaris, Francisco Leontaritis, Marcus Musurus, Mahfiruze Hatice Sultan, Nikolaos Sophianos, Stavrianos Vistiaris, Giovanni Demisiani, Siege of Coron, Meletius Pegas, Konstantinos Kallokratos, Maximos Margunios, Nikolaos Loukanis, Antonios Eparchos, Iakovos Trivolis, Mathew Devaris, Aaron Abiob, Angelos Pitzamanos. Excerpt: El Greco (1541 - April 7, 1614) was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" (The Greek) was a nickname, a reference to his Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, ¿¿µ¿¿¿¿¿¿ Te¿t¿¿¿p¿¿¿¿¿ (Doménikos Theotokópoulos). 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. In 1570 he moved to Rome, where he opened a workshop and executed a series of works. During his stay in Italy, El Greco enriched his style with elements of Mannerism and of the Venetian Renaissance. In 1577, he moved to Toledo, Spain, where he lived and worked until his death. In Toledo, El Greco received several major commissions and produced his best-known paintings. El Greco's dramatic and expressionistic style was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries but found appreciation in the 20th century. El Greco is regarded as a precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism, while his personality and works were a source of inspiration for poets and writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke and Nikos Kazantzakis. El Greco has been characterized by modern scholars as an artist so individual that he belongs to no conventional school. He is best known for tortuously elongated figures and often fantastic or phantasmagorical pigmentation, marrying Byzantine traditions with those of Western painting. The Dormition of the Virgin (before 1567, tempera and gold on panel, , Holy Cathedral of the Dormition of the Virgin, Hermoupolis, Syros) was probably created near the end of the artist's Cretan period. The painting combines post-Byzantine and Italian mannerist stylistic and iconographic elements.Born in 1541, in either the village of Fodele or Candia (the Venetian name of Chandax, present day Heraklion) on Crete, El Greco was descended from