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GRECO, El
Allegory of the Camaldolese
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ID: 43744
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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 | Mary Magdalen in Penitence | St Veronica Holding the Veil | St Francis's Vision of the Flaming Torch | A Lady in a Fur Wrap | Related Artists: Bertha Wormspainted Missing Naples in 1895 Viviano Codazzi1604-1670
Italian
Viviano Codazzi Location
1670). Italian painter. He arrived in Naples about 1634, having almost certainly trained in Rome. He was a specialist in the realistic architectural VEDUTA, and his interest in this theme may have been stimulated in Rome by the quadratura frescoes of Agostino Tassi and by the urban views of Claude Lorrain and Herman van Swan. MOUCHERON, Frederick deDutch painter (b. 1633, Emden, d. 1686, Amsterdam)
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