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El Greco (born Domenicos Theotocopoulos, 1541-1614) was born on the Greek island of Crete, then a Venetian colony, and went as a youth to Venice, where he began by painting icons in the Byzantine style for the Greek community there. He soon succumbed to the powerful influences of Titian, Tintoretto and, later, Michelangelo. In 1576, El Greco went to Spain, settling in Toledo, where he spent the rest of his life--producing the depictions of the Toledan landscape that are justly among his best-loved works. El Greco's art aimed to arouse religious fervor in its viewers: consequently his brushwork is ecstatically free, color is used expressively and figures are elongated to maximum tension by their emphatic gestures. His work brings a great age of Christian art to its close. With 108 full-color illustrations, including all of his best-known and most characteristic works, this volume offers the reader a wide overview of the work of one of the world's most innovative painters.
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- PublisherEdiciones Poligrafa
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 8434309661
- ISBN 13 9788434309661
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Book Description Hardcover. tan boards. 127 pgs w/ color & bw illustrations. pictorial black dustjacket. "Domenicos Theotokopoulos, better known as El Greco (1541-1621), gained his training as an artist in Crete, Venice and Rome, the three centers of art that he passed through. Yet even though he learned from the great Italian artists of the 16th century, his arrogance was such that he went so far so to say that Michelangelo was a good man but he did not know how to paint, remarking that the Last Judgment could be painted over and that he could be commissioned to re-do it with honesty and decency and no less quality in the painting. His contemporaries found him a difficult personality. In 1577, he moved to Spain and made his home in Toledo. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Professor Santiago Alcolea Gil describes the most notable aspects of the life and work of this artist, one of the true masters in European pictorial art."--Publisher's website. New/Sealed In Publisher's Wrap. light rubbing to lower corner where wrap has worn. Seller Inventory # 181402
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Plus. First English Language Edition. hardcover in dust jacket., no flaws, clean, no writing or markings, tight binding/hinges.; 127pp., 106 mostly full-page color plates. includes important works from all periods, from crete to italy to spain. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Seller Inventory # 12277
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