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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 :. | St Sebastian ghj | St Francis and Brother Leo Meditating on Death | Escutcheon | Saint Peter | Apostle St James the Greater | Related Artists: MOILLON, LouiseFrench Baroque Era Painter, ca.1610-1696
French painter. She was the daughter of the Protestant Nicolas Moillon (1555-1619), a painter of portraits and landscapes, picture-dealer and member of the Acad?mie de St Luc. She grew up in the St-Germain-des-Pr?s district of Paris, which, from the beginning of the 17th century, was a centre for painters from the southern Netherlands seeking refuge from religious persecution. Flemish influences appear in her still-life work, a specialization in which she followed her stepfather, Michael Zeno Diemerpainted The Ahırkapı Lighthouse in 1906 - 1907
Jan Davidz de Heem1606-1684
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Jan Davidz de Heem Galleries
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