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El Greco : ambition & defiance

Title
El Greco : ambition & defiance / edited by Rebecca J. Long ; with essays by Keith Christiansen, Richard L. Kagan, Guillaume Kientz, Rebecca J. Long, Felipe Pereda, José Riello, and Leticia Ruiz Gómez and contributions by Jena K. Carvana.
Author
Greco, 1541?-1614
Publication
  • Chicago, IL : Art Institute of Chicago, [2020]
  • New Haven, CT : Distributed by Yale University Press
  • ©2020

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Additional Authors
  • Long, Rebecca J.
  • Christiansen, Keith
  • Kientz, Guillaume
  • Grand Palais (Paris, France), host institution.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, host institution.
Description
200 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles, color maps, color portraits; 34 cm
Summary
Renowned for a singular artistic vision, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known as El Greco (1541-1614), developed his distinctive painting style as he assiduously pursued professional success. This fresh and engaging survey of El Greco's work explores varied aspects of the artist's career-his aesthetic education in Italy, the mixed reception of his mature works in Spain, his uncompromising approach to business, and the baroque logistics of his Toledo workshop-and reveals the depth of El Greco's astounding ambition. The impressive volume focuses in particular on his 1577-79 altarpiece paintings for the Church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo-among them the magnificent 'Assumption of the Virgin'-which heralded the artist's arrival in Spain after productive periods of formation and re-formation in Crete, Venice, and Rome. Lavishly illustrated and clothbound with gilded edges, this publication features reproductions and scholarly discussions of more than 60 works ranging from large-scale canvases to intimate panels, with essays that elucidate the motives and meanings behind the artist's constantly changing and inventive approach. Exhibition: Grand Palais, Paris, France (16.10.2019-10.02.2020) / The Art Institute of Chicago, USA (08.03-21.06.2020).
Alternative Title
  • Ambition & defiance
  • Ambition and defiance
Subject
  • Greco, 1541?-1614 > Exhibitions
  • Greco, 1541?-1614 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Greco, 1541?-1614
  • El Greco 1541-1614
  • Christian art and symbolism > 16th century > Pictorial works
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Grand Palais, Paris, France, October 16, 2019-February 10, 2020 and the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, March 7-June 21, 2020.--Title page verso.
  • Translations from Spanish by Steve Berg. Translation from French by Anthony Shugaar.--Page 4.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
(from table of contents) Foreword / James Rondeau, Chris Dercon, and Jean-Luc Martinez -- Introduction / Rebeccas J. Long -- El Greco in Italy / Keith Christiansen -- El Greco and Giulio Clovio: three gazes / José Riello -- El Greco's altarpieces: artistic ambition and legal frustration / Rebecca J. Long -- El Greco, religious painter: success and failure / Felipe Pereda -- Urbs Sacra: the demand for art in El Greco's Toledo / Richard L. Kagan -- El Greco and the image: between invention and variation / Guillaume Kientz -- El Greco's workshop in Spain / Leticia Ruiz Gómez -- Catalogue. Crete and Venice ; Rome ; Early works in Spain ; Patrons and portraits ; Devotional paintings ; The painter and his workshop -- Maps -- Chronology / Jena K. Carvana -- Selected bibliography.
ISBN
  • 9780300250824
  • 0300250827
OCLC
  • on1140151128
  • SCSB-9717131
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library