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El Greco - Life and Work - A New History (Hardcover)
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El Greco - Life and Work - A New History (Hardcover)
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Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known to us as El Greco, was one of the
seminal figures of the Spanish Golden Age. This magnificent volume,
published to mark the four hundredth anniversary of the artist’s
death, features superb new photographs of recently cleaned and
restored paintings, revealing hitherto unknown facets of his art.
Born in Crete in 1541 under Venetian rule, raised in the
iconographic traditions of Byzantine art, and acquainted with both
Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic practice, El Greco journeyed to
Venice and Rome in the late Renaissance, before finding patronage
in Spain at the court of Philip II. He was a painter not only of
religious subjects but also of idiosyncratic portraits executed in
his own uniquely dramatic and expressionistic style. He spent
approximately half his life in Toledo, a city with which his name
has become indelibly linked, although he was never fully accepted
and was known there as a disputatious outsider. All this and more
is detailed in this thorough, richly illustrated book, in which the
artist’s works are reproduced following their recent major
cleanings and restorations, which have revealed hitherto unknown
facets of his art.
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