|
|
|
|
|
Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
|
|
|
GRECO, El
|
|
|
|
|
|
St John the Evangelist
Painting ID:: 62330
new21/GRECO, El-586896.jpg
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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,
|
|
St John the Evangelist |
|
90 x 77 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid There is an analogous version in the Cathedral of Toledo which is part of a series of the twelve Apostles, called Apostolados. It is assumed by some scholars that this painting also belonged to a similar series. Author: GRECO, El Title: St John the Evangelist , 1551-1600 , Spanish Form: painting , religious |
|
Related Paintings::.
| Last Communion of Saint Jose de Calasanz. | A caravan wonder Marco polos guidance give themselves ivag pa one missions ago Kublai Khans shave in north Quinine | Still life floral, all kinds of reality flowers oil painting 261 | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
