El Greco (National Gallery Company) - Hardcover

Davies, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857099338 ISBN 13: 9781857099331

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2003

Synopsis

This book addresses the full range of the artist's achievements (including sculpture), and considers his personality from both a religious and intellectual point of view. Every stage of El Greco's career is represented here, from his Byzantine icons to the late altarpieces in which the artist's individual treatment of mystical imagery reached its climax. El Greco's different subjects - including religious, mythological, genre, landscape and portrait works - are addressed, as well as the historical context in which the paintings were made.
Published to accompany the exhibition El Greco organised by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the National Gallery, London.

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Review:

'....a souvenir of an ecstatic encounter with culture' -- The Times, December 11 2004

Synopsis:

El Greco (1541-1614), born Domenikos Theotokopoulos, was one of the most fascinating and distinctive artists of the 16th century. His works are immediately recognizable for their brilliant colours, elongated figures, and spiritual intensity. Initially trained in Crete, in around 1567 El Greco moved to Italy where he purportedly studied with Titian. A decade later he is documented in Toledo (south of Madrid), and he spent the rest of his long life in Spain. His paintings and writings offer a thoughtful, frequently inspired response to the varied environments in which he worked, and they reveal that he was deeply engaged with the religious and artistic thinking of his times. This illustrated volume addresses the full range of the artist's work in painting and sculpture, from his Byzantine icons to his late altarpieces. It considers his personality from both a religious and intellectual point of view, and presents the artist's religious, mythological, genre, landscape, and portrait works, providing the historical context in which they were made.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1857099338
• ISBN 13: 9781857099331
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320