Greco: Carnets d'Expo (Decouvertes Hors-Series) - Softcover

Chastel-Rousseau, Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2072877091 ISBN 13: 9782072877094

Verlag: Editions Gallimard, 2019

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The last great master of the Renaissance, El Greco, holds a singular place in the history of art. His work is still viewed today with the eye of modernity, seducing a wide audience of lovers of ancient and contemporary art Published to accompany the first major monographic exhibition dedicated to El Greco in France: Grand Palais, Paris, 21 October 2019 - 10 February 2020, followed by Art Institute of Chicago, 4 March - 21 June 2020 The last great master of the Renaissance, Domenikos Theotokopoulos (1541-1614), known as El Greco, 'The Greek', holds a singular place in the history of art. Born in Crete, trained in the Byzantine tradition, El Greco continued his apprenticeship in Italy, in contact with Venetian aesthetics and Roman mannerism. It was in Spain, where he settled in the 1570s and where he imported his Italian ifluences (Titian, Tintoretto, Michelangelo) that he revealed the extent of his talents. In Toledo, he painted both secular and altar paintings, such as his masterpiece, The Burial of the Count of Orgaz.

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Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau is Curator of Spanish and Portuguese painting in the Paintings Department of the Louvre Museum.

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The last great master of the Renaissance, Domenikos Theotokopoulos (1541-1614), known as El Greco, 'The Greek', holds a singular place in the history of art. Born in Crete, trained in the Byzantine tradition, El Greco continued his apprenticeship in Italy, in contact with Venetian aesthetics and Roman mannerism. It was in Spain, where he settled in the 1570s and where he imported his Italian influences (Titian, Tintoretto, Michelangelo) that he revealed the extent of his talents. In Toledo, he painted both secular and altar paintings, such as his masterpiece, The Burial of the Count of Orgaz.

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• Verlag: Editions Gallimard
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 2072877091
• ISBN 13: 9782072877094
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 64
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Gallimard; www.abacaris-films.fr; ; 15 passage de la main d�or; Paris; �le-de-France; Frankreich