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GRECO, El
The Virgin and Child with St Martina and St Agnes
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ID: 43750
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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 :. | Portrait of the Artist's Son Jorge Manuel Theotokopoulos | St Francis Praying | The Annunciation | St Francis and Brother Rufus | St Dominic in Prayer | Related Artists: Nahl, Charles ChristianGerman-born American Painter, 1818-1878
later known as Charles Nahl, Karl Nahl, Charles Christian Nahl or Charles C. Nahl, was a German-born painter who is called California's first significant artist.He came from a long line of artists and sculptors and was trained at the Cassel Academy. Unease over the political state of Hesse led him and his friend Frederick August Wenderoth (1819-1884) to Paris in 1846, where "Charles" enjoyed some success at the salon. The February Revolution prompted another move with his half-brother Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl (1833-1889) to Brooklyn, New York, where they heard of the gold strike. They had no luck along the Yuba River but opened a studio with Wenderoth in Sacramento Master of the Life of Saint John the BaptistItalian Byzantine Style Painter, 14th Century Hirst, Claude RaguetAmerican Painter, 1855-1942
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