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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:: 43775
Apostle St Simon
Oil on canvas,
97 x 77 cm
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Painting ID:: 43776
Apostle St Paul
Oil on canvas,
97 x 77 cm
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Painting ID:: 43777
St Luke Painting the Virgin and Child
41,6 x 33 cm
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Painting ID:: 43778
Mount Sinai
1568
Tempera on panel,
37 x 23,8 cm
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Painting ID:: 43779
St Francis Receiving the Stigmata
Tempera on panel,
28,8 x 20,6 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: | constant permeke | Alexander Young Jackson | J.W. Wallander | Wladyslaw Podkowinski | Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts |
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