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GRECO, El
The Ecstasy of St Francis dfh
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ID: 07061
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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 :. | Resurrection hhd | St Francis-s Vision of the Flaming Torch | The Agony in the Garden | Portrait of a Doctor dfh | Christ Healing the Blind fg | Related Artists: Umberto Boccioni1882-1916
Italian
Umberto Boccioni Locations
Italian sculptor, painter, printmaker and writer. As one of the principal figures of FUTURISM, he helped shape the movements revolutionary aesthetic as a theorist as well as through his art. In spite of the brevity of his life, his concern with dynamism of form and with the breakdown of solid mass in his sculpture continued to influence other artists long after his death. Emile LevyParis 1826 - Paris 1890.
French Academic Painter, 1826-1890.
Studied under François-Edward Picot and Abel de Pujol. Anna Munthe-Norstedtpainted Still Life with Spring Flowers in 1892
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