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GRECO, El
Greek-born Spanish Mannerist Painter, 1541-1614
Greek painter, designer and engraver, active in Italy and Spain. One of the most original and interesting painters of 16th-century Europe, he transformed the Byzantine style of his early paintings into another, wholly Western manner. He was active in his native Crete, in Venice and Rome, and, during the second half of his life, in Toledo. He was renowned in his lifetime for his originality and extravagance and provides one of the most curious examples of the oscillations of taste in the evaluation of a painter,
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Painting ID:: 7049
The Annunciation sdgm
1569-70
Tempera on panel, 26,5 x 19,5 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Painting ID:: 7050
Christ Healing the Blind dfh
c. 1570
Oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm
Pinacoteca, Parma
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Painting ID:: 7051
Christ Healing the Blind fg
c. 1570
Oil on wood, 66 x 84 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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Painting ID:: 7052
Portrait of Giulio Clovio dfy
c. 1571
Oil on canvas, 63 x 88,5 cm
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
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Painting ID:: 7053
The Piet (The Lamentation of Christ) dfh
1571-76
Tempera on panel. 29 x 20 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
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GRECO, El
Greek-born Spanish Mannerist Painter, 1541-1614
Greek painter, designer and engraver, active in Italy and Spain. One of the most original and interesting painters of 16th-century Europe, he transformed the Byzantine style of his early paintings into another, wholly Western manner. He was active in his native Crete, in Venice and Rome, and, during the second half of his life, in Toledo. He was renowned in his lifetime for his originality and extravagance and provides one of the most curious examples of the oscillations of taste in the evaluation of a painter,
. Related Artists to GRECO, El: | Kusma Petrow-Wodkin | George Scharf | Jean Broc | Vaclav Vavrinec Reiner | John Samuel Blunt |
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