125 The presentation of the Infant While in Italy Caravaggio disoriented his contemporaries by his naturalism, in Toledo El Greco disconcerted his by the “extravagance” of a style of painting that deliberately distorts the proportions of the figures, dislocates their bodies, and exaggerates their movements. There was little resemblance between the personalities of Caravaggio and El Greco, and even less between their paintings, but they have one characteristic in common: a fierce insistence on their artistic and spiritual independence. Domenikos Theotokopoulos, called El Greco, felt that he was all the more free to paint however he liked this final Adoration of the
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