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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 Paintings of GRECO, El :. | St Veronica Holding the Veil | Christ on the Cross with the Two Maries and St John | Christ in Agony on the Cross | Apostle St John the Evangelist | The Resurrection | Related Artists: Poray, StanislausAmerican, 1888-1948 Jacob Wesselpainted Portrait of Hieronim Florian Radziwiłł. in 1746 SIBERECHTS, JanFlemish Baroque Era Painter, 1627-1703
Flemish painter, active in England. He was the son of the sculptor of the same name and became a master in the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp by 1648. He married in 1652 and moved to England sometime between 1672 and 1674.
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