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Art and the religious image in El Greco's Italy
This book is the first book-length examination of the early career of one of the early modern period's most notoriously misunderstood figures. Born around 1541, Domenikos Theotokopoulos began his career as an icon painter on the island of Crete. He is best known, under the name "El Greco,&...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pennsylvania
: The Pennsylvania State University Press
, [2014]
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| Online Access: | http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/jstor-ebooks-art/www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/j.ctv14gpcgd |
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Art and the religious image in El Greco's Italy |
| Author Notes: | Andrew R. Casper |
| E-Book Packages: | JSTOR E-Books in Art, Design and Photography |
| Notes: | FID-Lizenz "FID Kunst, Fotografie, Design" (keine Universitätslizenz) |
| Summary: | This book is the first book-length examination of the early career of one of the early modern period's most notoriously misunderstood figures. Born around 1541, Domenikos Theotokopoulos began his career as an icon painter on the island of Crete. He is best known, under the name "El Greco," for the works he created while in Spain, paintings that have provoked both rapt admiration and scornful disapproval since his death in 1614. But the nearly ten years he spent in Venice and Rome, from 1567 to 1576, have remained underexplored until now. Andrew Casper's examination of this period allows us to gain a proper understanding of El Greco's entire career and reveals much about the tumultuous environment for religious painting after the Council of Trent The divinity of paintingThe devotional image -- Synthesis as artistic ideal -- The theatrics of the counter-reformation narrative -- The artist as antiquarian in Christian Rome -- From icon to altarpiece. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 221 Seiten) Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780271063065 |
