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Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
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GRECO, El
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St Martin and the Beggar
Painting ID:: 43748
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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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St Martin and the Beggar |
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1597-99
Oil on canvas,
193 x 103 cm |
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