UID:
almahu_9949888141302882
Format:
1 online resource :
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9780190209025
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
The Byzantine icon has long remained marginal to the study of art's history, only emerging from Giorgio Vasari's condemnation of the gilded, unnatural style of Byzantine painting (maniera greca) when his theories were challenged in the early twentieth century. 'Eccentric Renaissance' focuses on an earlier reaction to Vasari's narrative and discusses three artists who shaped distinct responses to the hegemonic sway of sixteenth-century Italian art. Domenikos Theotokopoulos (more familiarly known as El Greco), Michael Damaskenos, and Georgios Klontzas were contemporary icon painters on the Venetian colony of Crete. Trained in the rich tradition of Cretan painting, these artists differed from their forebears in asserting a self-conscious creativity in their work. They renewed the art of icon painting in the context of Venetian colonialism by reconsidering how their art might address the contemporary world.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780190209001
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780190209001.001.0001
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