The Origins Of El Greco

Author : Greco
Publisher : Onassis Foundation USA
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39076002859812

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The Origins of El Greco by Greco Pdf

The Origins of El Greco focuses on the evolution of the multifaceted relationship of Cretan painters with Western art during this rich period. The icon painters in the workshops on Crete in the 15th and 16th centuries-the setting in which El Greco was trained-were renowned for their skill in painting impeccable panels not only in the traditional Byzantine manner but also in a style inspired by Western models. The Origins of El Greco presents an extraordinary group of 15th and 16th century paintings, including works by El Greco. The color-illustrated catalogue features detailed descriptions of all 46 masterpieces included in the exhibition, some of them published for the first time, as well as 3 informative essays: Anastasia Drandaki, Curator, Byzantine Collection, Benaki Museum, Athens writes on "Between Byzantium and Venice: Icon Painting in Venetian Crete in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries", Olga Gratziou, Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology, University of Crete writes on "Cretan Architecture and Sculpture in the Venetian Period" and Nicos Hadjinicolaou, Professor Emeritus in Art History, University of Crete, and Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, writes on "Early and Late El Greco".

Author : Fernando Marías
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Painters
ISBN : 0500093776

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El Greco, Life and Work, a New History by Fernando Marías Pdf

The authoritative, illustrated life and work of El Greco, one of the world's most influential and inimitable creative spirits.

Author : Fernando Marías
Publisher : Scala Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015055449774

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El Greco in Toledo by Fernando Marías Pdf

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 : Nikolaos M. Panagiotakes,translated by John C. Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351941358

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El Greco – The Cretan Years by Nikolaos M. Panagiotakes,translated by John C. Davis Pdf

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 : Nicos Hadjinicolaou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9607309006

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El Greco by Nicos Hadjinicolaou Pdf

Author : Livia Stoenescu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503565557

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Creative and Imaginative Powers in the Pictorial Art of El Greco by Livia Stoenescu Pdf

This volume presents an innovative art-historical outlook on the prevalent interpretations and theoretical analyses of El Greco's paintings. Discussing the role of El Greco in early modern art history, Fernando Marias sheds light on unexplored aspects of El Greco's translation of the religious thought of the conversos into his work, and Miriam Cera investigates the stream of humanist sources from Salazar de Mendoza's library in Toledo that influenced El Greco's artistic development. These two introductory studies set the framework for subsequent essays on El Greco's collaboration with Spain's humanist circles and the late sixteenth-century culture of the Italian Renaissance. Jose Riello offers an original interpretation of El Greco's paintings by re-examining the importance of Reformation thought in his work made in Toledo. Tackling the critical impact of Michelangelo's draftsmanship on El Greco, Karin Hellwig explores the complexity of El Greco's relationship with the Italian Renaissance master. Livia Stoenescu demonstrates that El Greco crafted a unique historical style by drawing on an antique culture of religious artifacts, relics, and icons while remodeling the old within modern painting. Enrico Maria dal Pozzolo's exploration of a fluid continuity between El Greco's models and an entire Italian tradition of Marian painting, resulting in works which El Greco grounded in Renaissance devotional content and which were circulated in the medium of prints and engravings, directs our attention towards new stylistic concerns and potential discussions.

Author : Richard G. Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521389437

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El Greco and His Patrons by Richard G. Mann Pdf

The bold and unusual religious paintings of the Spanish artist El Greco (c. 1541–1614) have aroused widespread interest and wonder, yet little has been known about the artist's patrons. This is a comprehensive study of the several individuals who financed, encouraged and influenced El Greco's extraordinary artistic endeavours. Mann reconstructs the lives of several of the artist's patrons and demonstrates how El Greco's pictorial ensemble reflected the patrons' concerns. Thus the actual context of El Greco's work is established. The book indicates that the artist's patrons helped to shape both the style and iconography of the paintings, and clarifies the precise nature of the connection between the paintings and Spanish mysticism. In studying the purposes and meaning of El Greco's religious paintings, the author thereby provides the basis for an alternative interpretation of the artist's work and presents many insights into life in sixteenth-century Spain.

Author : Andrew R. Casper
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271063065

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Art and the Religious Image in El Greco’s Italy by Andrew R. Casper Pdf

Art and the Religious Image in El Greco’s Italy 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. Art and the Religious Image in El Greco’s Italy is a new book in the Art History Publication Initiative (AHPI), a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Thanks to the AHPI grant, this book will be available in popular e-book formats.

Author : Rebecca J. Long
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300250824

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El Greco by Rebecca J. Long Pdf

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 : Jonathan Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Art
ISBN : OCLC:256912362

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El Greco: Italy and Spain by Jonathan Brown Pdf

Author : Eric Storm
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781782843436

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Discovery of El Greco by Eric Storm Pdf

Originally published in Dutch and translated to Spanish for the fourth centenary celebration of the death of El Greco in 2014, this book is a comprehensive study of the rediscovery of El Greco -- seen as one of the most important events of its kind in art history. The Nationalization of Culture versus the Rise of Modern Art analyses how changes in artistic taste in the second half of the nineteenth century caused a profound revision of the place of El Greco in the artistic canon. As a result, El Greco was transformed from an extravagant outsider and a secondary painter into the founder of the Spanish School and one of the principle predecessors of modern art, increasingly related to that of the Impressionists -- due primarily to the German critic Julius Meier-Graefe's influential History of Modern Art (1914). This shift in artistic preference has been attributed to the rise of modern art but Eric Storm, a cultural historian, shows that in the case of El Greco nationalist motives were even more important. This study examines the work of painters, art critics, writers, scholars and philosophers from France, Germany and Spain, and the role of exhibitions, auctions, monuments and commemorations. Paintings and associated anecdotes are discussed, and historical debates such as El Greco's supposed astigmatism are addressed in a highly readable and engaging style. This book will be of interest to both specialists and the interested art public.

Author : Carmen Giménez,Francisco Calvo Serraller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Painting, Spanish
ISBN : 8496209725

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Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso by Carmen Giménez,Francisco Calvo Serraller Pdf

Author : Carmen Giménez,Francisco Calvo Serraller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Painting, Spanish
ISBN : IND:30000111134924

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Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso by Carmen Giménez,Francisco Calvo Serraller Pdf

Author : Greco 1541?-1614,Manuel B 1858-1935 Cossío,Tyler Royall 1884-1953
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020201061

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El Greco by Greco 1541?-1614,Manuel B 1858-1935 Cossío,Tyler Royall 1884-1953 Pdf

This stunning collection of illustrations showcases the work of one of the most important painters of the Spanish Renaissance, El Greco. The book includes 48 full-color plates of his most famous works, as well as insightful commentary by Manuel B. Cossío and Royall Tyler that illuminates the artist's style and technique. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of art or the Spanish Renaissance. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Livia Stoenescu
Publisher : Visual and Material Culture
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art criticism
ISBN : 9462989001

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The Pictorial Art of El Greco by Livia Stoenescu Pdf

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.