 Therefore, it seems that El Greco traveled to Venice sometime after 27 December 1566.In one of his last articles, Wethey reassessed his previous estimations and accepted that El Greco left Crete in 1567.According to other archival material—drawings El Greco sent to a Cretan cartographer—he was in Venice by 1568.

g. Mancini reports that El Greco said to the Pope that if the whole work was demolished he himself would do it in a decent manner and with seemliness.