The pictorial art of El Greco : transmaterialities, temporalities, and media /

The Pictorial Art of El Greco: Transmaterialities, Temporalities, and Media investigates El Greco's pictorial art as foundational to the globalizing trends manifested in the visual culture of early modernity. It also exposes the figurative, semantic and allegorical senses he created to challeng...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stoenescu, Livia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Series:Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; 6.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prototypal images reaffirmed in early modern painting
  • Spanish miraculous images, sacred narratives, and aesthetic goals
  • El Greco's The purification of the temple
  • Reinventing the nude in an age of censorship
  • The dialogue of classical and devotional cultures in El Greco's Laocoön of Toledo.