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GRECO, El
Portrait of a Gentleman from the Casa de Leiva
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ID: 43787
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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 Virgin Mary | Annunciation | Christ in Agony on the Cross | St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata dfh | The Disrobing of Christ | Related Artists: Severin Nilsson (1846 - 1918) was a Swedish painter and photographer.
He was born in Halland in the south of Sweden. He studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm 1865 - 1871 and then under Leon Bonnat in Paris for three years.
Severin painted portraits, landscapes and genre pictures. A prolific artist, he participated in numerous exhibitions and left behind a large and diverse production of work. He was also one of the first Swedish documentary photographers. Inspired by Arthur Hazelius, he made photographic studies of public life, especially in the village Asige in Halland, where he was born
Job BerckheydeDutch Baroque Era Painter, 1630-1693 Claes Dircksz.van er heckAlkamaar 1571-after 1649
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