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Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
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GRECO, El
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Penitent Magdalen
Painting ID:: 62342
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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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Penitent Magdalen |
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118 x 105 cm Private collection Autograph version, signed 'dom?nikos theot?kopoulos epoiei'. It is a late composition of the artist, recalling the iconography of Titian. Author: GRECO, El Title: Penitent Magdalen , 1551-1600 , Spanish Form: painting , religious |
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Related Paintings::.
| A Slate Wharf,with the Village of Clappersgate and Coniston Fells,near the Head of Windermere-Forenoon (mk47) | Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte | Ward Tuomasihe | |
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