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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.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
El Greco
| Editor | Caroline Larroche |
| Cover | Hardcover |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-2-07-287709-4 |
| Pages | 56 |
| Weight | 188 g |
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| Author(s) | Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris |
| Article ID | art-64138 |
The last great master of the Renaissance and first great painter of the Golden Age, Domenico Theotokopoulos (1541-1614), known as El Greco, holds a singular place in the history of art. Rediscovered by the avant-garde at the beginning of the 20th century, his work is still viewed today with the eye of modernity, seducing a large audience of lovers of both ancient and contemporary art.
Born in Crete, trained in the Byzantine tradition, Greco continued his apprenticeship in Italy, in contact with Venetian aesthetics and Roman mannerism. It was in Spain, where he settled in the 1570s and where he lived. imported his Italian influences (Titian, Tintoretto, Michelangelo), that he would reveal the extent of his talents. In Toledo, he produces both secular paintings (portraits, mythologies, landscapes) and altar paintings, such as his masterpiece The Burial of the Count of Orgaz.
