Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco). With 48 non-text tables

A lending library was operated in the Didaskaleion of Crete in Heraklion since the beginning of its establishment in 1901. It was a very important facility, which provided educational tools to the students of that time. After all, in the first years of the operation of the Didaskaleion, a municipal library had not yet been established in Heraklion. The municipal library was founded in 1908. In the last surviving consolidated list of books of the Didaskaleion, 666 titles were found, included in 5 Classification Categories (C.C.): a. Letters - Science - Art. b. Scientific. c. Free readings. d. Ancillary. e. Didactic. The above classification did not correspond to any strict thematic categorization given that some books of the same subject were classified in different C.C.. The C.C. "Letters - Science - Arts" included books on Greek and foreign literature, literary theory, history, philosophy, folklore and theology. The book ''Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco)'' belonged to the "Letters - Science - Arts" category of the lending library of the Didaskaleion of Crete in Heraklion. Pantelis Prevelakis (1909-1986), Professor of Art History at the Athens School of Fine Arts, translator and one of the main representatives of the 30's generation in Greek prose, presents the biography of Domenikos Theotokopoulos (known worldwide as El Greco). El Greco was born and raised in Chandakas (Heraklion), Crete, where he was taught painting. After reaching adulthood he went to Venice, where he practiced the style of the Byzantine School. He later ended up in Toledo, Spain, where he lived until his death. The book comments on his main works and points out that he was always interested in expressing the inexpressible through his painting.