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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 | St Francis Receiving the Stigmata | Adoration of the Name of Jesus (Dream of Philip II) dfh | The Annunciation sdgm | St Francis Meditating | Related Artists: Mytens, Daniel the ElderDutch- Practiced mainly in England, Approx. 1590-1647 Ivan Kramskoi(June 8 (O.S. May 27), 1837 C April 6 (O.S. March 24), 1887) Ebenezer Colls(1812- 1887 ) - Painter
painted Sailboats in a squall in
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