Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 317 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780190209018
Inhalt:
Eccentric Renaissance shows how El Greco and two other sixteenth-century Cretan artists, Michael Damaskenos and Georgios Klontzas, actively engaged in a re-casting of the Byzantine tradition of icon painting on the Venetian colony of Crete. In so doing, they created art that articulated a point of view that was shaped outside of and against the hegemonic world of Vasari's account of art history. Building upon their own tradition, they developed a highly original understanding of the icon and explored its power to reconcile Byzantine and Renaissance styles of painting and provide a response to the growing presence of Islam.
Inhalt:
"Eccentric Renaissance shapes a distinct perspective on late-sixteenth century European painting thanks to its focus on the Greek colonial culture of Venetian Crete. Leading artists on the island immersed themselves in the world of contemporary Italian painting. In response, they developed self-conscious manners of painting that hover between the traditions of Byzantine painting and the art of the Early Modern Mediterranean. El Greco defined his work as a Greek alternative to the Vasarian account of art's history. Michaēl Damaskēnos's late paintings address the unresolved differences that may be found in a colonial society. Geōrgios Klontzas confronted the plague and the threat of Ottoman conquest by interweaving oracular and apocalyptic imagery into the history of his own times. These eccentric perspectives led to the creation of works of art that confronted their times with great originality"--
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780190209001
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Barber, Charles, 1964 - Eccentric Renaissance New York : Oxford University Press, 2024 ISBN 9780190209001
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
El Greco 1541-1614
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Damaskinos, Michail 1530-1591
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Klontzas, Geōrgios 1540-1608
