El Greco (National Gallery London Publications)
Publisher: National Gallery London
Published: February 9, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781857093155
Subjects: Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Painters; Biography; Biography / Autobiography; Art; Reference; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers; 1541?-1614; Greco,; Spain
First sentence: THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD of the sixteenth century -the world of El Greco - was a world in which three civilisations coexisted, interacted and clashed: the Latin West; the Greek Orthodox East; and the civilisation of Islam (fig. 1).