 Nothing is known about his mother or his first wife, also Greek.El Greco's older brother, Manoússos Theotokópoulos (1531 – 13 December 1604), was a wealthy merchant and spent the last years of his life (1603–1604) in El Greco's Toledo home.El Greco received his initial training as an icon painter of the Cretan school, a leading center of post-Byzantine art.