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...comes down to us as El Greco--"the Greek"--because he was born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Crete. At the time, 1541, the island was a colony of Venice, but one that looked east in artistic matters to the traditions of the Byzantine. By his 20s he was already a recognized local practitioner of the religious-icon style. His gifts and ambition eventually took him to Venice, where his art was transformed by the twisting energies and sensual palettes of Titian and Tintoretto, all of which he turned to his own purposes. In The Purification of the Temple, a scene that...
...DIED. Sir Terry Frost, 87, durable painter of bright, geometric abstracts; in Newlyn, Cornwall. The untrained Frost first took up painting as a World War II prisoner of war after the invasion of Crete and eventually became a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. A friend described him to the bbc as "a very noisy person, who said the secret to long life was champagne and Guinness...
...evening last summer I was chatting in a bar in Crete with a doctor from Tel Aviv, who was on vacation with his family. We talked about the Palestinian friends he hadn't seen since the start of the Aqsa intifadeh, his missions as a reservist in the Israeli army. I asked him how long he was staying in Crete. Just a few days, he said, then added wistfully, "Sometimes we just have to get away...
...Santorini man - Santorini, the once vibrant island community in the Aegean north of Crete, where many centuries ago a mammoth volcano did, without question, destroy an advance civilization. That's certainly what Plato had in mind when he lectured on Atlantis. Or, at least, that's what I came to conclude...
Together the two men find and lose loves, attempt to open an old mine and philosophize about life. Set on the island of Crete, this straightforward musical makes no attempt to use Greek culture as anything more than a backdrop. This is a musical about Zorba, his simple wisdom and the profound effect it has on those around him, namely Nikos...