The Formative Years of El Greco in Venice and Greece: Tradition, Influences and Innovation
The Formative Years of El Greco in Venice and Greece: Tradition, Influences and Innovation Sharpe, Sarah Undergraduate thesis / Završni rad 2017 Degree Grantor / Ustanova koja je dodijelila akademski / stručni stupanj: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences / Sveučilište u Rijeci, Filozofski fakultet u Rijeci Permanent link / Trajna poveznica: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:877997 Rights / Prava: In copyright Download date / Datum preuzimanja: 2021-10-04 Repository / Repozitorij: Repository of the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - FHSSRI Repository UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES SVEUČ ILIŠNA AVENIJA 4, 51 000 RIJEKA DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY The Formative Years of El Greco in Venice and Greece: Tradition, Influences, and Innovation Student: Sarah Sharpe Academic year: 2016./2017. Mentor: Professor Nina Kudiš, Ph.D. Rijeka, August 2017 Summary The paper aims to delineate certain issues on the nature of influence in the early works and practice of El Greco. It briefly looks at the cultural context within which he painted during his formative early period in native Crete, and later his brief sojourn in Venice, which was to leave a lasting impact on the work he produced throughout his entire career. The specific historical, and subsequently cultural environments, of Crete and Venice contributed greatly to the heterogeneous and often difficult-to-classify style of this late Renaissance painter. In the paper, a few select works from the two initial periods are examined, which perhaps best illustrate what author Andrew R. Casper calls ‘the artful icon’, a work of art which merges the practical methods of icon making with the theory-driven and emotionally evocative nature of Italian Renaissance painting.
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