TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marías,Fernando
AU  - Edson,Paul
AU  - Berg,Sander
TI  - El Greco, life and work, a new history
SN  - 9780500093771
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Thames & Hudson
KW  - Greco,
KW  - Painting, Renaissance
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Spain
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Painters
KW  - Biography
N1  - Translated from Spanish: El Greco, historia de un pintor extravagante; Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-329) and indexes; Introduction : the shifting boundary between history and fiction -- 1. Crete : life and brushes (1541-66). The Kingdom of Candia ; Family and faith ; Greek versus Latin ; Background to a childhood ; The known facts ; Apprenticeship and vocation -- 2. Venice : reshaping art (1566-70). The New Athens ; From Titian to Tintoretto ; The artist and his books ; The road to Rome -- 3. Rome : reshaping the artist (1570-77). Seeking a space ; The Cardinal's Librarian ; Art and artists in Rome ; Setting up a workshop ; Spaniards in Rome ; "Among the best of his century" -- 4. Toledo : a better homeland? (1577-85). A journey inland ; The first steps ; Santo Domingo el Antiguo ; The setback of El Escorial ; A mistress and a son ; A solitary man ; The City of Toledo -- 5. Toledo : from resident to citizen (1585-1601). A new house and a new studio ; The Burial of the Count of Orgaz ; Theory and praxis ; Canvases and altarpieces ; The Court of Madrid ; From Guadalupe to Toledo ; The close of a century -- 6. Toledo : old age and eternity (1601-14). The Archiepiscopal Council ; The Shrine of Illescas ; The Greeks of Toledo ; The poets' painter ; Anonymous clients ; From the Oballe Chapel to the Hospital Tavera ; Candles and a canvas -- Appendices. Notes on currencies, units of measurement and calendars ; Dukes of Candia ; Doges of Venice ; Popes ; Archbishops of Toledo ; Kings of Spain ; Inventory of the possessions of El Greco, 1614 ; Inventory of the possessions of Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli, 1621 ; Inventory of goods seized from Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli, 1622 ; Inventory of goods seized from Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli, 1624
N2  - Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known to us as El Greco, was one of the seminal figures of the Spanish Golden Age. This volume, published to mark the four hundredth anniversary of the artist's death, features new photographs of recently cleaned and restored paintings, revealing hitherto unknown facets of his art. Born in Crete in 1541 under Venetian rule, raised in the iconographic traditions of Byzantine art, and acquainted with both Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic practice, El Greco journeyed to Venice and Rome in the late Renaissance, before finding patronage in Spain at the court of Philip II. He was a painter not only of religious subjects but also of idiosyncratic portraits executed in his own uniquely dramatic and expressionistic style. He spent approximately half his life in Toledo, a city with which his name has become indelibly linked, although he was never fully accepted and was known there as a disputatious outsider
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