AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE, 1300-1700

Livia Stoenescu The Pictorial Art of El Greco Transmaterialities, Temporalities, and Media

This book investigates El Greco’s pictorial art as foundational to the globalising trends manifested in the visual culture of early modernity. It also exposes the figurative, semantic, and allegorical senses that El Greco created to challenge an Italian Renaissance-centered discourse. Even though he was guided by the unprecedented burgeoning of devotional art in the post- Tridentine decades and by the expressive possibilities of earlier religious artifacts, especially those inherited from the apostolic past, the author demonstrates that El Greco forged his own independent trajectory. While his paintings have been studied in relation to the Italian and Spanish school traditions, his pictorial art in a global Mediterranean context continues to receive scant attention. Taking a global perspective as its focus, the book sheds new light on El Greco’s highly original contribution to early Mediterranean and multi- Livia Stoenescu institutional configurations of the Christian faith in is Associate Professor of Art History at the College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, Byzantium, Venice, Rome, Toledo, and Madrid. College Station. She is the editor of Creative and

Imaginative Powers in the Pictorial Art of El Greco (Brepols, 2016). In El Greco studies only, her contributions include “Pictorial Allegory in El Greco’s Laocoön of Toledo,” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics (2017) and “The Dialogue of Classical and Devotional Cultures in El Greco’s Laocoön of Toledo,” Comitatus (2015).

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 January 2019 324 pages, 101 colour, 9 b/w illustrations Hardback ISBN 978 94 6298 900 9 e-ISBN 978 90 4854 141 6 €105.00 / £90.00 / $130.00 €104.99 / £89.99 / $129.99

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