1st Edition
The Pictorial Art of El Greco Transmaterialities, Temporalities, and Media
By Livia Stoenescu
Copyright 2019
322 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgments, Introduction, List of Illustrations, 1: Prototypal Images Reaffirmed in Early Modern Painting, 2: Spanish Miraculous Images, Sacred Narratives, and Aesthetic Goals, 3: El Greco's The Purification of the Temple, 4: Reinventing the Nude in an Age of Censorship, 5: The Dialogue of Classical and Devotional Cultures in El Greco's Laocoön of Toledo, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Livia Stoenescu is Associate Professor of Art History at the College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station. She is the editor of Creative and Imaginative Powers in the Pictorial Art of El Greco (Brepols, 2016). In El Greco studies only, her contributions include Pictorial Allegory in El Greco’s Laocoön of Toledo, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics (2017) and The Dialogue of Classical and Devotional Cultures in El Greco’s Laocoön of Toledo, Comitatus (2015).
