商品簡介
This book 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 he created to challenge an Italian Renaissance-centered discourse. Even though he was guided by the unprecedented flowering 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.
作者簡介
Livia Stoenescu is assistant professor of art history at Texas A&M University. She is the editor of Creative and Imaginative Powers in the Pictorial Art of El Greco (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016). Her articles include "El Greco's Laocoon from Toledo," RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics (in press, fall 2017) and "Classical and Devotional Cultures in El Greco's Laocoon of Toledo," Comitatus 46 (2015): 171-209. Also, she serves as art history book reviewer for Seventeenth-Century News.
