Pictorial Art of El Greco: Transmaterialities, Temporalities, and Media

The Pictorial Art of El Greco: Transmaterialities, Temporalities, and Media explores El Greco's pictorial art as a foundation for globalizing trends in early modernity, challenging an Italian Renaissance-centered discourse. It sheds new light on his contribution to early Mediterranean and multi-institutional configurations of the Christian faith.

Format: Hardback
Length: 324 pages
Publication date: 14 January 2019
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

The Pictorial Art of El Greco: Transmaterialities, Temporalities, and Media delves into the profound significance of El Greco's pictorial art as a cornerstone of the globalizing trends that emerged during the early modern era. It also uncovers the rich figurative, semantic, and allegorical dimensions that El Greco crafted to challenge the prevailing Italian Renaissance-centered discourse. Despite being influenced by the unprecedented surge of devotional art in the post-Tridentine decades and the expressive potential of earlier religious artifacts, particularly those inherited from the apostolic past, the author showcases that El Greco forged his own distinctive path. While his paintings have been extensively studied in the context of Italian and Spanish artistic traditions, his pictorial art within a broader Mediterranean framework remains relatively overlooked. With a global perspective as its guiding principle, this book offers fresh insights into El Greco's highly original contribution to the early Mediterranean and multi-institutional configurations of Christianity in Byzantium, Venice, Rome, Toledo, and Madrid.

The Pictorial Art of El Greco: Transmaterialities, Temporalities, and Media delves into the profound significance of El Greco's pictorial art as a cornerstone of the globalizing trends that emerged during the early modern era. It also uncovers the rich figurative, semantic, and allegorical dimensions that El Greco crafted to challenge the prevailing Italian Renaissance-centered discourse. Despite being influenced by the unprecedented surge of devotional art in the post-Tridentine decades and the expressive potential of earlier religious artifacts, particularly those inherited from the apostolic past, the author showcases that El Greco forged his own distinctive path. While his paintings have been extensively studied in the context of Italian and Spanish artistic traditions, his pictorial art within a broader Mediterranean framework remains relatively overlooked. With a global perspective as its guiding principle, this book offers fresh insights into El Greco's highly original contribution to the early Mediterranean and multi-institutional configurations of Christianity in Byzantium, Venice, Rome, Toledo, and Madrid.

Weight: 952g
Dimension: 179 x 248 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789462989009
Edition number: 0