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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
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Art and the Religious Image in El Greco’s Italy
| Publisher | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Year | 2014 |
| Cover | Hardcover with dust jacket |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-0-271-06054-5 |
| Pages | 236 |
| Weight | 1162 g |
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| Author(s) | Andrew R. Casper |
| Article ID | art-45347 |
»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, under the name “El Greco,” for the works he created while in Spain, paintings that have provoked both rapt admiration and scornful disapproval since his death in 1614. But the nearly ten years he spent in Venice and Rome, from 1567 to 1576, have remained underexplored until now.
Andrew Casper’s examination of this period allows us to gain a proper understanding of El Greco’s entire career and reveals much about the tumultuous environment for religious painting after the Council of Trent.
