The Pictorial Art of El Greco

Transmaterialities, Temporalities, and Media
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-18869-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

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 burgeoning of devotional art in the post-Tridentine decades and by the expressive possibilities of earlier religious artifacts, especially those inherited from the apostolic past, the author demonstrates that El Greco forged his own independent trajectory. While his paintings have been studied in relation to the Italian and Spanish school traditions, his pictorial art in a global Mediterranean context continues to receive scant attention. Taking a global perspective as its focus, the book sheds new light on El Greco's highly original contribution to early Mediterranean and multi-institutional configurations of the Christian faith in Byzantium, Venice, Rome, Toledo, and Madrid.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stoenescu, Livia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).