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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 :. | Holy Family with | Angelic Concert | St Louis, King of France, with a Page | St Francis's Vision of the Flaming Torch | Apostle St Bartholomew | Related Artists: GHISLANDI, VittoreItalian Baroque Era Painter, 1655-1743 Rudolph SwobodaAustrian, 1859 - 1914 Joseph FischerJoseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, also Fischer von Erlach the younger (13 September 1693 in Vienna; 29 June 1742 in Vienna) was an Austrian architect of the baroque, Rococo and baroque classicism
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