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GRECO, El
Portrait of Cardinal Tavera
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ID: 43716
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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 :. | A View of Toledo | St Luke | Mary Magdalen in Penitence | The Pentecost | A Prelate 1600s Oil on canvas | Related Artists: Sanford Gifford(July 10, 1823 C August 29, 1880) was an American landscape painter and one of the leading members of the Hudson River School. Gifford's landscapes are known for their emphasis on light and soft atmospheric effects, and he is regarded as a practitioner of Luminism, an offshoot style of the Hudson River School.
Anicet-Charles-Gabriel LemonnierFrench Painter, 1743-1824 Franz Niklaus Konigb Berne, 6 April 1765; d Berne, 27 March 1832
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