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GRECO, El
Mary Magdalen in Penitence
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ID: 43797
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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 :. | Altarpiece | The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception and St John | The Adoration of the Shepherds | The Annunciation sdgm | The Pentecost | Related Artists: ecole francaiseFounded in 1846, the EfA is the oldest foreign institute in Athens. Its early foundation, still a source of considerable prestige, is to be seen culturally connected with French philhellenism and politically with the French East Mediterranean strategy of the time.
billy higginsFamous artist Istvan Dorfmeister1729-1797
Hungarian
Istvan Dorfmeister Location
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