You know you’ve achieved fame when people begin to refer to you just from the place where you came from. That happened in Spain to the painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos, maybe because the Spanish found his name hard to pronounce; anyhow, they called him El Greco, “The Greek,” the man from Greece. Then there’s Michelangelo Merisi, who I think is one of …
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