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THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD of the sixteenth century -the world of El Greco - was a world in which three civilisations coexisted, interacted and clashed: the Latin West; the Greek Orthodox East; and the civilisation of Islam (fig. 1).

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD of the sixteenth century -the world of El Greco - was a world in which three civilisations coexisted, interacted and clashed: the Latin West; the Greek Orthodox East; and the civilisation of Islam (fig. 1).