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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:: 43715
Saint Jerome Penitent
1610-14
Oil on canvas,
166 x 110 cm
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Painting ID:: 43716
Portrait of Cardinal Tavera
1608-14
Oil on canvas,
103 x 83 cm
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Painting ID:: 43717
Angelic Concert
c. 1610
Oil on canvas,
115 x 217 cm
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Painting ID:: 43738
St Francis Meditating
c. 1595
Oil on canvas,
147,3 x 105,4 cm
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Painting ID:: 43739
The Virgin Mary
Oil on canvas,
52 x 36 cm
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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: | ELINGA, Pieter Janssens | Frances Hudson Storrs | BEGAS, Carl the Elder | George Elgar Hicks | Hills, Laura Coombs |
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