| Description |
348 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, facsimiles ; 31 cm |
| ISBN |
9780500093771 hardback |
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0500093776 hardback |
| Note |
Originally published as: El Greco, historia de un pintor extravagante. San Sebastián: Editorial Nerea, ©2013. |
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"This book commemorates the 400th anniversary of the death of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known as El Greco (1541-1614)" --Page [349]. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-329) and indexes. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 idiosyncratic portraits executed in his own uniquely lively and immediate 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 there and had a reputation as an opinionated and disputatious outsider. This magnificent, richly illustrated book reproduces many recently cleaned and restored painting to reveal hitherto unknown facets of his work. Fernando Marías looks behind the manifold and often conflicting myths about El Greco's life and art and clarifies the truth about the man and his extraordinary talent for invention" -- Dust jacket. |
| Note |
Translated from the Spanish. |
| Library Class |
Fine Arts CH1320
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| Subject |
Greco, 1541?-1614.
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Mannerism (Art) -- Spain.
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Christian art and symbolism -- Modern period, 1500- -- Spain.
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Portrait painting, Spanish -- 16th century.
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Portrait painting, Spanish -- 17th century.
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Painting, Greek -- Spain -- 16th century.
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Painting, Greek -- Spain -- 17th century.
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Painters -- Spain -- Biography.
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Painters -- Greece -- Biography.
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Marías, Fernando, 1949- Greco, historia de un pintor extravagante. English. |
| Other Author |
Edson, Paul, translator.
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Berg, Sander, translator.
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