El Greco (National Gallery Company)
Contributors: David Davies (Editor); John H. Elliott (Editor); Xavier Bray (Contributor); Keith Christiansen (Contributor); Gabriele Finaldi (Contributor)
Publisher: National Gallery London
Published: March 8, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781857099386
Subjects: Individual artists; Painting & paintings; History - General; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Greco,; General; European; Individual Artist; 1541?-1614; 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).