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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:: 43740
Poet Ercilla y Zuniga
Oil on canvas,
44 x 41,5 cm
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Painting ID:: 43741
Study of a Man
c. 1595
Oil on canvas, 49,5 x 42,5 cm
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Painting ID:: 43742
Female Portrait
c. 1595
Oil on canvas,
40 x 33 cm
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Painting ID:: 43743
A View of Toledo
Oil on canvas,
121,3 x 108,6 cm
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Painting ID:: 43744
Allegory of the Camaldolese
Oil on canvas,
124 x 90 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: | William de Leftwich Dodge | Karl Bodmer | Nicolaas Pieneman | Abraham Storck | Girolamo di Benvenuto |
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