El Greco (National Gallery Company)
Contributors: Xavier Bray (Contributor); Keith Christiansen (Contributor); Gabriele Finaldi (Contributor); David Davies (Editor); John H. Elliott (Editor)
Publisher: National Gallery London
Published: October 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781857099331
Subjects: Exhibition catalogues and specific collections; Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Art & Art Instruction; 1541?-1614; Greco,; Art; General; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; Art / General; Exhibitions
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).