This artist became a pariah in Rome after he offered to completely paint over Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment for Pius V. The lower left of a painting depicts this artist’s son displaying a handkerchief with his signature and pointing at a saint in golden vestments. Scholars dispute the affinity between this artist’s flatly composed, tempera-and-gold Dormition of the Virgin and his later style. An unfinished altar panel by this artist depicts naked souls receiving robes behind Saint John of Patmos, who raises his arms to the sky. This former icon painter used his trademark pale, elongated figures for a 1586 painting in which Saint Stephen and Augustine lay an armored nobleman in the ground. For 10 points, what painter of Opening of the Fifth Seal and The Burial of the Count of Orgaz was born in Crete? ■END■
ANSWER: El Greco [or Doménikos Theotokópoulos or Doménikos Theotokópoulos]
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