El Greco

Doménikos Theotokópoulos, El Greco (1541-1621) was formed through his time in three artistic centers: Crete, Venice and Rome. But, although he receives the lesson of the great Italian artists of the 16th century, his arrogance leads him to affirm that Michelangelo "was a good man who did not know how to paint", whose Last Judgment could be undone so that he could repaint it "honestly". and decency and not inferior in quality of painting». Difficult personality for his contemporaries, in 1577 he moved to Spain and fixed his residence in Toledo. Capable of being an effective realist, his propensity to idealize led him to adopt a series of personal procedures: elongation of the canon of the figure, thinning of the faces, deformation of the foreshortenings, flaming rhythms and a constant invention in the use of color as a no one in his time dared to put it into practice. El Greco knew how to arouse the interest of his time and penetrate the mystical feeling of the Spain of Felipe II. Professor Santiago Alcolea i Gil describes for us in this widely illustrated book the most outstanding aspects of the life and work of this artist, a leading figure in European pictorial art. Author: Santiago Alcolea i Gil Language: Spanish Binding: Hardcover Pages: 128 pp. Dimensions: 2'6 x 6'6 x 29 cm Publisher: Ediciones Polígrafa