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GRECO, El
St Louis, King of France, with a Page
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ID: 43801
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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 :. | A Lady in a Fur Wrap | Apostle St John the Evangelist | The Resurrection | St Dominic in Prayer | Portrait of Cardinal Tavera | Related Artists: Johann Michael FranzSeine Eltern waren der Zimmermeister Jakob Franz , und Anna geb. Lueger. Seine Ausbildung genoss er im Umkreis des Augsburger Reichsstädtischen Kunstakademiedirektors Johann Georg Bergmuller (Bergmiller) (1688-1762); nach eigenen Angaben schloss er sie 1733 ab. Moses, Grandma1948
Oil on pressed wood. Adolf Friedrich Erdmann Menzel1815-1905
Realism
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