El Greco (1541-1614): Unity of Opposites

This course shall consider the oeuvre of the Crete-born artist Domenikos Theotokopoulos, who entered the annals of history under the name of El Greco, the Greek. Having trained in the Byzantine tradition on Crete to be an icon painter, the artist left for Italy to studiously copy renaissance artists and comprehend their vision of Biblical events. El Greco subsequently settled in Spain, where, combining his early training and understanding of the inherently symbolic nature of painted images with the technical devices derived from Western art, he elaborated his highly individual, intensely reflexive, style of painting.

Elena Kashina MPhil MPhil PhD

• Term: Autumn
• Day: Saturday
• Start Date: 27 October 2018 **Please note new date**
• Time: 1-4pm
• No. of weeks: 1
• Course fee: £22.00

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