El Greco: Life and Work - A New History
By Fernando Marias.
Description
An authoritative account of the life and work of El Greco, one of the world's most influential and inimitable creative spirits Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known to us as El Greco, was one of the seminal figures of the Spanish Golden Age. 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 went to Venice and Rome in the late Renaissance, before seeking patronage in Spain at the court of Philip II. He was a painter not only of religious subjects, but also of idiosync...
ISBN(s)
0500093776, 9780500093771
