Beschreibung:
This book investigates El Greco's pictorial art as foundational to the globalising trends manifested in the visual culture of early modernity.
ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionList of IllustrationsChapter 1: Prototypal Images Reaffirmed in Early Modern PaintingChapter 2: Spanish Miraculous Images, Sacred Narratives, and Aesthetic GoalsChapter 3: El Greco's The Purification of the TempleChapter 4: Reinventing the Nude in an Age of Censorship Chapter 5: The Dialogue of Classical and Devotional Cultures in El Greco's Laocoön of ToledoNotesBibliographyIndex