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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 :. | Allegory of the Camaldolese | St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata dfh | Adoration of the Shepherds | Christ c | St Peter in Penitence | Related Artists: Georg LembergerGerman born 1490- died 1540. Nationality: German. Adolf SteelGerman, 1829 - 1907
German and lived in Germany.
Most of his works are about arab people and arabic street and city. There are a lot of oil paintings which are collected by museums in Europe. Arthur William Devis(10 August 1762 - 11 February 1822) was an English painter of history paintings and portraits. He was appointed draughtsman in a voyage projected by the East India Company in 1783, under Captain Henry Wilson, in which he was wrecked on the Pelew Islands before proceeding to Canton and thence to Bengal. He painted portraits and historical subjects, sixty-five of which he exhibited (1779-1821) at the Royal Academy.
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