El Greco's Italian paintings (1560-76) based on Bible texts

The purpose of this article is to interpret a selection of El Greco’s Italian paintings (1560-1576) based on Bible texts in which ideas current during the Catholic Counter-Reformation are symbolised. At the age of nineteen El Greco, who was born in Crete in 1541 and was initially an icon painter in...

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Main Author: Estelle Alma Maré
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2009-06-01
Series:Acta Theologica
Online Access:https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at/article/view/2241
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