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Art and the Religious Image in El Greco's Italy

  • ISBN-13: 9780271060545
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Andrew R. Casper
  • Price: AUD $174.00
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  • Local release date: 16/03/2014
  • Format: Hardback 236 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Photography & photographs [AJ]
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Explores the early career of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, "El Greco," in particular his engagement with Italian art around the time of his sojourn in Venice and Rome (1567-76). Examines the form, function, and conception of religious images in the second half of the sixteenth century.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Divinity of Painting

2 The Devotional Image

3 Synthesis as Artistic Ideal

4 The Theatrics of the Counter-Reformation Narrative

5 The Artist as Antiquarian in Christian Rome

6 From Icon to Altarpiece

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Professor Andrew Casper’s densely illustrated essay on the ‘artful icon’ is an insightful study of the nine years that the philosophising painter Domenico Theotocopolo spent in Italy (1567–76), on his way from his native Crete to Spain, where he lived and worked in Toledo until his death in 1614. . . . This volume is a substantial contribution to understanding how an icon-writer from the Greek Orthodox world came to accommodate himself to the post-Tridentine Roman Catholic society of Italy.”

—Rev. Dr. Nicholas Cranfield, Church Times

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