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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 :. | Portrait of the Artist's Son Jorge Manuel Theotokopoulos | Study of a Man | St Francis in Prayer before the Crucifix | Adoration of the Name of Jesus (Dream of Philip II) dfh | St Francis Meditating | Related Artists: Wladyslaw Malecki (1836 in Maslew - 1900 in Szydłowiec) was a Polish painter.
Francesco del CossaItalian
c1435-c1478
Francesco del Cossa Location
Italian painter. He was a leading representative of the Ferrarese school and was regarded, with Ercole de Roberti, as the founder of the Bolognese school. His principal works include The Glorification of March, April, and May, frescoes in the Schifanoia Palace, Ferrara; some admirable portraits of the artist contemporaries; Madonna Enthroned (Bologna); Madonna and Child with Angels, St. Liberal, and St. Lucy (National Gall. of Art, Washington, D.C.); and an altarpiece representing scenes from the life of St. Vincent Ferrer (National Gall., London, and the Vatican). Giovanni Battista Castagnetopainted Seascape in 1851 - 1900
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