El Greco
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Greek-born Spanish Mannerist Painter, 1541-1614
Considered a representative of late Renaissance Spanish art, El Greco was actually born in Greece, on the island of Crete. After studying in Venice under Titian, El Greco settled in Toledo, Spain in 1577. At the time he was wildly popular, his emotionally religious paintings being just the ticket for the hometown of the Spanish Inquisition. After his death his work was largely ignored until the beginning of the 20th century; now he considered one of the inspired geniuses of Western art. His distinctive style features bold shapes and colors, with elongated and slightly distorted figures.
In Toledo El Greco was in constant demand and liked living large: he maintained a private orchestra to accompany his meals. |
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Christ Carrying the Cross El Greco10.jpg Painting ID:: 1121
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1600-1605
Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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Melone, Altobello
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Italian, active approx. 1516-1543 |
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Christ Carrying the Cross new5/Melone, Altobello_vp7pN3.jpg Painting ID:: 19370
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1515
Oil on panel
National Gallery, London.
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BOSCH, Hieronymus
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Netherlandish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1450-1516
Bosch produced several triptychs. Among his most famous is The Garden of Earthly Delights. This painting depicts paradise with Adam and Eve and many wondrous animals on the left panel, the earthly delights with numerous nude figures and tremendous fruit and birds on the middle panel, and hell with depictions of fantastic punishments of the various types of sinners on the right panel. When the exterior panels are closed the viewer can see, painted in grisaille, God creating the Earth. These paintings have a rough surface from the application of paint; this contrasts with the traditional Flemish style of paintings, where the smooth surface attempts to hide the fact that the painting is man-made.
Bosch never dated his paintings and may have signed only some of them (other signatures are certainly not his). Fewer than 25 paintings remain today that can be attributed to him. Philip II of Spain acquired many of Bosch's paintings after the painter's death; as a result, the Prado Museum in Madrid now owns several of his works, including The Garden of Earthly Delights.
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Christ Carrying the Cross new4/BOSCH, Hieronymus-866773.jpg Painting ID:: 30475
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Oil on wood
24"x32"
Ghent
Museum of Fine Arts
1515-1516
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MASTER THOMAS de Coloswar
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first half of 15th century |
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Christ Carrying the Cross new4/MASTER THOMAS de Coloswar-879377.jpg Painting ID:: 32410
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1427
Tempera on pine, 87 X 68.5 cm |
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Sebastiano del Piombo
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1485-1547 Italian Sebastiano del Piombo Galleries
Italian painter. He was one of the most important artists in Italy in the first half of the 16th century, active in Venice and Rome. His early, Venetian, paintings are reminiscent of Giovanni Bellini and to a lesser extent of Giorgione. With his move to Rome in 1511 he came under the influence of Raphael and then of Michelangelo, who supplied him with drawings. After the death of Raphael (1520) he was the leading painter working in Rome and was particularly noted as a portrait painter. In his finest works, such as the Piete (1513; Viterbo, Mus. Civ.) and the Flagellation (1516-24; Rome, S Pietro in Montorio), there is a remarkable fusion of the Venetian use of colour and the grand manner of central Italian classicism. |
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Christ Carrying the Cross new9/Sebastiano del Piombo-276269.jpg Painting ID:: 32618
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1535-40
Oil on slate, 157 x 118 cm
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