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Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
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GRECO, El
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Lady with a Fur sfhg
Painting ID:: 7065 GRECO, El16.jpg
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GRECO, El
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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,
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Lady with a Fur sfhg |
1577-80
Oil on canvas, 62 x 51 cm
Private collection, Glasgow |
Related Paintings::. | John Julius Angerstein | White-Tailed Gnus (mk25) | Portrait of Claude de Lorrain, Prince of Chevreuse af | |
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