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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
