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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:: 43790
The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception and St John
c. 1585
Oil on canvas,
237 x 118 cm
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Painting ID:: 43791
St Francis Praying
Oil on canvas,
116 x 102 cm
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Painting ID:: 43792
St Peter in Penitence
1580s
Oil on canvas,
109 x 90 cm
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Painting ID:: 43793
Christ on the Cross with the Two Maries and St John
c. 1588
Oil on canvas,
120 x 80 cm
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Painting ID:: 43794
St Francis Receiving the Stigmata
1585-90
Oil on canvas,
102 x 97 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: | Jean Portaels | James Duffield Harding | Antoine Leon Morel-Fatio | Francois-Marius Granet | Konstantin Korovin |
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