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 Francis Receiving the Stigmata new16/GRECO, El-727645.jpg Painting ID:: 43779
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Tempera on panel,
28,8 x 20,6 cm |
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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 Francis Receiving the Stigmata new16/GRECO, El-592223.jpg Painting ID:: 43794
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1585-90
Oil on canvas,
102 x 97 cm |
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MASTER of San Francesco Bardi
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active 1240-1270 in Florence |
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St Francis Receiving the Stigmata new19/MASTER of San Francesco Bardi-883675.jpg Painting ID:: 52313
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1240-50 Tempera on wood, 81 x 51 cm |
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