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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:: 7054
Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple dfh
1571-76
Oil on canvas, 117 x 150 cm
Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
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Painting ID:: 7055
Assumption of the Virgin dfg
1577
Oil on canvas, 401 x 229 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
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Painting ID:: 7056
The Holy Trinity fg
1577
Oil on canvas, 300 x 179 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Painting ID:: 7057
Christ Healing the Blind df
1577-78
Oil on canvas, 120 x 146 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Painting ID:: 7058
Resurrection hhd
1577-79
Oil on canvas, 210 x 128 cm
Church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo, Toledo
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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: | Gabriel Bella | John R.Chapin | Francois Dumont | holger drachmann | Gustaf Cederstrom |
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