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GRECO, El
A Prelate 1600s Oil on canvas
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ID: 62344
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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 :. | Female Portrait | St Peter in Penitence | Portrait of the Artist's Son Jorge Manuel Theotokopoulos | The Adoration of the Shepherds | An Allegory with | Related Artists: Paul PaeschkeGerman, 1875-1943 Dirck de Quade van Ravesteyn Flemish painter 1565-1620 Attributed to John de Critz the Elderpainted Portrait of Anne of Denmark in c. 1605
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