Download or read book Discovery of El Greco written by Eric Storm and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Dutch and translated to Spanish for the fourth centenary celebration of the death of El Greco in 2014, this book is a comprehensive study of the rediscovery of El Greco -- seen as one of the most important events of its kind in art history. The Nationalization of Culture versus the Rise of Modern Art analyses how changes in artistic taste in the second half of the nineteenth century caused a profound revision of the place of El Greco in the artistic canon. As a result, El Greco was transformed from an extravagant outsider and a secondary painter into the founder of the Spanish School and one of the principle predecessors of modern art, increasingly related to that of the Impressionists -- due primarily to the German critic Julius Meier-Graefe's influential History of Modern Art (1914). This shift in artistic preference has been attributed to the rise of modern art but Eric Storm, a cultural historian, shows that in the case of El Greco nationalist motives were even more important. This study examines the work of painters, art critics, writers, scholars and philosophers from France, Germany and Spain, and the role of exhibitions, auctions, monuments and commemorations. Paintings and associated anecdotes are discussed, and historical debates such as El Greco's supposed astigmatism are addressed in a highly readable and engaging style. This book will be of interest to both specialists and the interested art public.
Download or read book El Greco in Toledo written by Fernando Marías and published by Scala Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a unique insight into El Greco's paintings of the landscape and monuments of Toledo.Particular atteneion is paid to El Greco's works: 'The Burial of the Count of Orgaz' and 'El Esplolio'. One section is devoted to El Greco's house and museum, which are regarded as great treasures of Toledo.
Download or read book El Greco and His Patrons written by Richard G. Mann and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bold and unusual religious paintings of the Spanish artist El Greco (c. 1541–1614) have aroused widespread interest and wonder, yet little has been known about the artist's patrons. This is a comprehensive study of the several individuals who financed, encouraged and influenced El Greco's extraordinary artistic endeavours. Mann reconstructs the lives of several of the artist's patrons and demonstrates how El Greco's pictorial ensemble reflected the patrons' concerns. Thus the actual context of El Greco's work is established. The book indicates that the artist's patrons helped to shape both the style and iconography of the paintings, and clarifies the precise nature of the connection between the paintings and Spanish mysticism. In studying the purposes and meaning of El Greco's religious paintings, the author thereby provides the basis for an alternative interpretation of the artist's work and presents many insights into life in sixteenth-century Spain.
Download or read book El Greco Comes to America written by Inge Jackson Reist and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2014, to mark the four-hundredth anniversary of El Greoc's death and the appeal of his art in America, major museums mounted exhibitions of paintings which came to their collections as a result of "Grecomaia", a collecting trend seemingly inspired by Knoedler Gallery's exhibition of the artist's work, in 1904. The Frick Collection's symposium focused on the development of American collectors' taste for El Greco's works.
Download or read book El Greco and Modernism written by Judith F. Dolkart and published by Hatje Cantz. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sensational oeuvre of El Greco (1541-1614) was first introduced to a broader German audience in 1910 through Julius Meier-Graefe's journal, "The Spanish Journey". Numerous artists subsequently caught "Greco fever" when they first saw larger groups of his works in exhibitions in Munich in 1911 and Düsseldorf in 1912. Max Beckmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Max Oppenheimer, Ludwig Meidner, and especially members of the Blaue Reiter-August Macke, Franz Marc, Albert Bloch, and others-recognized in El Greco a father figure for the Modernist movement, mentioning him in the same breath as Paul Cézanne. This volume presents a general selection of over forty paintings by El Greco from the most famous museums around the world. At the same time, the young artists' exploration of the paintings and visual spheres of the exceptional Spanish painter are discussed, opening up a fascinating view of the battle for Modernism. 0Exhibition: Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany (28.4.-12.8.2012).
Download or read book El Greco written by Rebecca J. Long and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visually stunning examination of El Greco’s work that considers the artist’s constant reinvention and professional drive Renowned for a singular artistic vision, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known as El Greco (1541–1614), developed his distinctive painting style as he assiduously pursued professional success. This fresh and engaging survey of El Greco’s work explores varied aspects of the artist’s career—his aesthetic education in Italy, the mixed reception of his mature works in Spain, his uncompromising approach to business, and the baroque logistics of his Toledo workshop—and reveals the depth of El Greco’s astounding ambition. The impressive volume focuses in particular on his 1577–79 altarpiece paintings for the Church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo—among them the magnificent Assumption of the Virgin—which heralded the artist’s arrival in Spain after productive periods of formation and re-formation in Crete, Venice, and Rome. Lavishly illustrated and clothbound with gilded edges, this publication features reproductions and scholarly discussions of more than 60 works ranging from large-scale canvases to intimate panels, with essays that elucidate the motives and meanings behind the artist’s constantly changing and inventive approach.
Download or read book El Greco of Toledo written by Fernando Marías and published by Ediciones El Viso. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive selection of masterpieces by El Greco, accompanied by informative essays.
Download or read book The Complete Paintings of El Greco 1541 1614 written by José Gudiol and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 85 full-color illustrations and 268 black-and-white illustrations. Demonstrates the nature of El Greco's wayward and compelling art and reveals him as one of Europe's greatest painters.
Download or read book El Greco written by David Davies and published by National Gallery Publications Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the full range of the sixteenth century artist's work in painting and sculpture, from his Byzantine icons to his late altarpieces.
Download or read book El Greco written by Greco and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and work of Domenicos Theotocopoulous, the sixteenth-century artist who created his greatest works in Spain where he was known as "El Greco."
Download or read book El Greco written by Greco and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1980 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art and the Religious Image in El Greco s Italy written by Andrew R. Casper and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and the Religious Image in El Greco’s Italy is the first book-length examination of the early career of one of the early modern period’s most notoriously misunderstood figures. Born around 1541, Domenikos Theotokopoulos began his career as an icon painter on the island of Crete. He is best known, under the name “El Greco,” for the works he created while in Spain, paintings that have provoked both rapt admiration and scornful disapproval since his death in 1614. But the nearly ten years he spent in Venice and Rome, from 1567 to 1576, have remained underexplored until now. Andrew Casper’s examination of this period allows us to gain a proper understanding of El Greco’s entire career and reveals much about the tumultuous environment for religious painting after the Council of Trent. Art and the Religious Image in El Greco’s Italy is a new book in the Art History Publication Initiative (AHPI), a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Thanks to the AHPI grant, this book will be available in popular e-book formats.
Download or read book El Greco the Life and Work of the Artist written by Lionello Puppi and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book El Greco to Velazquez written by Sarah Schroth and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Apr. 20-July 27, 2008 and at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Aug. 21-Nov. 9, 2008.
Download or read book El Greco Life and Work a New History written by Fernando Marías and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative, illustrated life and work of El Greco, one of the world's most influential and inimitable creative spirits.
Download or read book The Spanish Portrait written by Javier Portús Pérez and published by Nouvelles éditions Scala. This book was released on 2004 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a survey of the development of this genre in Spanish art from the 15th century to the early decades of the 20th, through a selection of 87 works.
Download or read book El Greco written by Nikolaos Panagiōtakēs and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fundamental contribution to El Greco scholarship, until now only available in Greek, provides a thoroughly substantiated assessment of the evidence regarding the formative years in the life of one of the greatest artists of all time. Dealing with his birthplace, family, name, religious affiliation, and apprenticeship as a painter, Nikolaos Panagiotakes concludes that El Greco was already an established professional 'master painter' by the time he left Crete for Italy in 1567 at the age of twenty-six.
