Author : Fernando Marías
Publisher : Scala Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN :
Provides a unique insight into El Greco's paintings of the landscape and monuments of Toledo.Particular atteneion is paid to El Greco's works: 'The Burial of the Count of Orgaz' and 'El Esplolio'. One section is devoted to El Greco's house and museum, which are regarded as great treasures of Toledo.
Author : Greco
Publisher : Little Brown
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : El Greco - Critica e interpretacion
ISBN : 9780821215012
Catalog for 1982 exhibition at The Toledo Museum of Art, Museo del Prado, National Gallery of Art and the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Essays by Jonathan Brown, William B. Jordan, Richard L. Kagan and Alfronso E. Perez Sanchez. Extensively illustrated. El Greco (1541-1614), born Domenikos Theotokopoulos, was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance.
Author : Rebecca J. Long
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300250827
A visually stunning examination of El Greco’s work that considers the artist’s constant reinvention and professional drive Renowned for a singular artistic vision, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known as El Greco (1541–1614), developed his distinctive painting style as he assiduously pursued professional success. This fresh and engaging survey of El Greco’s work explores varied aspects of the artist’s career—his aesthetic education in Italy, the mixed reception of his mature works in Spain, his uncompromising approach to business, and the baroque logistics of his Toledo workshop—and reveals the depth of El Greco’s astounding ambition. The impressive volume focuses in particular on his 1577–79 altarpiece paintings for the Church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo—among them the magnificent Assumption of the Virgin—which heralded the artist’s arrival in Spain after productive periods of formation and re-formation in Crete, Venice, and Rome. Lavishly illustrated and clothbound with gilded edges, this publication features reproductions and scholarly discussions of more than 60 works ranging from large-scale canvases to intimate panels, with essays that elucidate the motives and meanings behind the artist’s constantly changing and inventive approach.
Author : Sarah Schroth
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN :
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Apr. 20-July 27, 2008 and at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Aug. 21-Nov. 9, 2008.
Author : Nikolaos M. Panagiotakes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351941356
Exploring all the available sources, this study, which until now was only available in Greek, presents us with an account of El Greco's life up to the time he left Crete for Italy in 1567 at the age of twenty-six, already an accomplished professional painter. Nikolaos Panagiotakes provides a thorough assessment of earlier research on Crete of the 16th century then goes on to present new conclusions on the life of El Greco deriving from the author's firsthand reading of Venetian archive material, including questions relating to his birthplace, family, name, religious affiliation, and apprenticeship as a painter. The evidence indicates that El Greco was an established professional 'master painter' earlier than had previously been thought and also that he had a family before leaving Crete, thus perhaps explaining why he did not later marry Jerónima de las Cuevas, with whom he had a son in Toledo. This work marks a valuable contribution to El Greco scholarship, particularly in its thoroughly substantiated assessment of the evidence regarding the formative years in the life of El Greco, one of the greatest of all European artists.
Author : José Gudiol
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN :
Includes 85 full-color illustrations and 268 black-and-white illustrations. Demonstrates the nature of El Greco's wayward and compelling art and reveals him as one of Europe's greatest painters.
Author : Harold Edwin Wethey
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 1962
Category :
ISBN :
Author : David Davies
Publisher : National Gallery Publications Limited
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781857099331
Looks at the full range of the sixteenth century artist's work in painting and sculpture, from his Byzantine icons to his late altarpieces.
Author : Rick Steves
Publisher : Rick Steves
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,92 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781641712231
Explore Europe's top 100 works of art with America's most trusted travel authority, Rick Steves. Travel through time and discover Europe's most iconic paintings, sculptures, and historic buildings. From Venus to Versailles, Apollo to David, and Mona Lisa to The Thinker, Rick and co-author Gene Openshaw will have you marveling, learning, and laughing, one masterpiece at a time. Whether you're traveling to Europe or just dreaming about it, this book both stokes your wanderlust and kindles a greater appreciation of art, with historical context and information on where to see it for yourself. With Rick's trusted insight and gorgeous, full-color photos throughout, Europe's Top 100 Masterpieces celebrates nearly 20,000 years of unforgettable art.
Author : Livia Stoenescu
Publisher : Visual and Material Culture
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Art criticism
ISBN : 9789462989009
The Pictorial Art of El Greco: Transmaterialities, Temporalities, and Media investigates El Greco's pictorial art as foundational to the globalising trends manifested in the visual culture of early modernity. It also exposes the figurative, semantic, and allegorical senses that El Greco created to challenge an Italian Renaissance-centered discourse. Even though he was guided by the unprecedented burgeoning of devotional art in the post-Tridentine decades and by the expressive possibilities of earlier religious artifacts, especially those inherited from the apostolic past, the author demonstrates that El Greco forged his own independent trajectory. While his paintings have been studied in relation to the Italian and Spanish school traditions, his pictorial art in a global Mediterranean context continues to receive scant attention. Taking a global perspective as its focus, the book sheds new light on El Greco's highly original contribution to early Mediterranean and multi-institutional configurations of the Christian faith in Byzantium, Venice, Rome, Toledo, and Madrid.
