El Greco
Subtitle: Mystery and Illumination
Publisher: National Galleries of Scotland
Published: 1989
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780903148900
Subjects: Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Spain; History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600
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).