The Pictorial Art of El Greco : : Transmaterialities, Temporalities, and Media / / Livia Stoenescu.
This book 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 he created to challenge an Italian Renaissance-centered discourse. Even though he was g...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Visual and Material Culture, 1300 -1700
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (322 p.) :; 10 color plates, 100 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index