1st Edition
Sense Knowledge and the Challenge of Italian Renaissance Art El Greco, Velázquez, Rembrandt
By Giles Knox
Copyright 2019
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
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Giles Knox examines how El Greco, Velaìzquez, and Rembrandt, though a disparate group of artists, were connected by a new self-consciousness with respect to artistic tradition. In particular, Knox considers the relationship of these artists to the art of Renaissance Italy, and sets aside nationalist art histories in order to see the period as one of fruitful exchange. Across Europe during the... Read more
Acknowledgements,List of Illustrations, Introduction: Polemics of Painting Part One - Origin Stories and the Challenge of Italy, Chapter One - El Greco: Italy, Crete, Toledo, Chapter Two - From El Greco to Velázquez: Juan Bautista Maíno Part Two - Illusion, Materiality, Touch, Chapter Three - Velázquez and Inversion: Making and Illusion, Chapter Four - Vulcan, Mars, and Venus: Erotic Touch, Chapter Five - Late Rembrandt I: Texture and Skilled Touch, Chapter Six - Late Rembrandt II: Feeling with the Eyes, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Giles Knox is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Indiana University. He has edited, together with Tanya J. Tiffany: Velázquez Re-Examined: Theory, History, Poetry, and Theatre, Brepols, 2017. He is the author of The Late Paintings of Velázquez: Theorizing Painterly Performance, Ashgate, 2009.
