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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 :. | Lady with a Fur sfhg | Assumption of the Virgin dfg | Penitent Magdalen | St Francis's Vision of the Flaming Torch | Christ in Agony on the Cross | Related Artists: Delaunay, RobertFrench Cubist Painter, 1885-1941
French painter, printmaker and writer. Taking Cubism as one of his points of departure, he first developed a vocabulary of colour planes only distantly dependent on observed motifs, and by the 1930s he had arrived at a purely self-sufficient language of geometric forms. He remained active as a theoretician until the end of his life, Hendrick Martensz SorghDutch Baroque Era Painter ,
ca.1611-1670
Johann Walterpainted Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden at the Battle of Breitenfeld in 1632
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