El Greco (born Domenicos Theotocopoulos, 1541-1614) was born on the Greek island of Crete, then a Venetian colony, and went as a youth to Venice, where he began by painting icons in the Byzantine style for the Greek community there. He soon succumbed to the powerful influences of Titian, Tintoretto [...]
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[...]
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[...]
This richly illustrated book covers 250 years of painting in Spain, opening with art created at the splendid16th-century court of Philip II, before turning to art and patronage in the cities of Toledo, Valencia and Seville. It then returns to Madrid to explore the work at the 17th-century Habsburg c[...]
Domenikos Theotokopoulos, widely known as El Greco (The Greek), was a leading painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. El Greco's style was enriched with elements of Mannerism and the Venetian Renaissance, adopting a dramatic and expressionistic style that was met with puzzlement [...]
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 vers[...]
The National Gallery has one of the finest collections of Spanish paintings outside Spain, and this book features nearly all the pictures normally on display. Haunting works by El Greco introduce the Spanish Golden Age of the seventeenth century. The canvases by Velazquez span his career, with power[...]
Gut drei Jahrhunderte trennen die Ereignisse dieser beiden Novellen, sie führen nach Spanien und zeigen Menschen in unerträglichen Gewissenskonflikten. Da ist der ehemalige Padre, der als Matrose und Kriegsgefangener in seine einstige Zelle in dem zum Gefangenenlager umfunktionierten Kloster zurü[...]
Stiftung Museum.
16th-century modern: The unique El Greco visionTo his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541 1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, but stubborn in the pursuit of his own path. Throughout his career, as he progressed from Crete to Venice,[...]
A prophet of modernism. Strong colours and sinuous figures El Greco (1541-1614) was born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Crete in 1541. He arrived in Venice in 1566, where his work was greatly influenced by Titian and Tintoretto. Later he made an offer to the Pope to paint over Michelangelo's "Last Judg[...]
El Greco of Toledo is the catalogue that will accompany the exhibition to be shown at the Museo de Santa Cruz in Toledo, Spain from March to June 2014, to mark the 400th anniversary of El Greco's death. In addition to the works in the exhibition, this catalogue also includes a comprehensive selecti[...]
El Greco, early modern painting, Mediterranean studies, Renaissance art, transmaterialities of religious imagery[...]