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El Greco
Burial of the Count de Orgaz, oil on canvas by El Greco, 1586–88; in the church of Santo Tomé, Toledo, Spain.
From 1585 until his death in 1614, El Greco lived and worked in the large, late-medieval palace of the Marqués de Villena in Toledo.
While a museum in Toledo was previously known as the Casa y Museo del Greco, it was never actually the artist's residence. It is believed that El Greco prioritized having sufficient space for his atelier within the palace, which was considered one of the city's most handsome structures at the time, rather than focusing on luxurious living quarters.1