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GRECO, El
St. Martin and the Beggar
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ID: 43749
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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 :. | Christ in Agony on the Cross | Allegory of the Camaldolese | St Francis Receiving the Stigmata | St John the Evangelist | The Piet (The Lamentation of Christ) dfh | Related Artists: Henry HuttAmerican Illustrator
1875-1950
Otto Greinerpainted Prometheus in 1909 Nancy FayAmerican , 1893-1930
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