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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 :. | The Pentecost | The Annunciation | A Lady in a Fur Wrap | Christ as Saviour | The Burial of the Count of Orgaz | Related Artists: BRUSASORZI, DomenicoItalian painter, Veronese school (b. 1516, Verona, d. 1567, Verona) Emile Van Marcke de Lummen1827-1890
Emile van Marcke was born in S??vres - into a family of artists. His father was Jean-Baptiste (1797-1848), the eldest son of Charles van Marcke and a painter who specialized not only in landscape and animal paintings, but also works on porcelain. Momper II, Joos deFlemish Baroque Era Painter, 1564-1635
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