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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 Driving the Traders from the Temple dfh | Mary Magdalen in Penitence | St Ildefonso | The Repentant Peter | Poet Ercilla y Zuniga | Related Artists: Nicola Russopainted apparizione di san Michele in 1690 Abraham Brueghel(1631-1690) was a Flemish painter from the famous family of artists. He was the son of Jan Brueghel the Younger, the grandson of Jan Brueghel the Elder and the great-grandson of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Smith ThomasAmerican Colonial Era Painter, ca.
1650-1691
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