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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 Francis-s Vision of the Flaming Torch | The Annunciation | Apostle St Thomas | The Pentecost | Female Portrait | Related Artists: Marco ZoppoCento 1433-Venice 1478 Baldungb.c. 1484, Schwäbisch Gm??nd, W??rttemberg [Germany]
d.1545, Imperial Free City of Strasbourg [now Strasbourg, Fr.]
Hans Baldung Gallery School of Fontainebleauca 1550
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