The Pictorial Art of El Greco

Transmaterialities, Temporalities, and Media

Livia Stoenescu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

322 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-18869-8 (ISBN)

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The Pictorial Art of El Greco: Transmaterialities, Temporalities, and Media 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 that El Greco created to challenge an Italian Renaissance-centered discourse. Even though he was guided by the unprecedented burgeoning of devotional art in the post-Tridentine decades and by the expressive possibilities of earlier religious artifacts, especially those inherited from the apostolic past, the author demonstrates that El Greco forged his own independent trajectory. While his paintings have been studied in relation to the Italian and Spanish school traditions, his pictorial art in a global Mediterranean context continues to receive scant attention. Taking a global perspective as its focus, the book sheds new light on El Greco's highly original contribution to early Mediterranean and multi-institutional configurations of the Christian faith in Byzantium, Venice, Rome, Toledo, and Madrid.

Livia Stoenescu is Associate Professor of Art History at the College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station. She is the editor of Creative and Imaginative Powers in the Pictorial Art of El Greco (Brepols, 2016). In El Greco studies only, her contributions include Pictorial Allegory in El Greco’s Laocoön of Toledo, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics (2017) and The Dialogue of Classical and Devotional Cultures in El Greco’s Laocoön of Toledo, Comitatus (2015).

Acknowledgments, Introduction, List of Illustrations, 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, Notes, Bibliography, Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	1-041-18869-2 / 1041188692
ISBN-13	978-1-041-18869-8 / 9781041188698
Zustand	Neuware