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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The bold and unusual religious paintings of El Greco (c. 1541-1614 have aroused widespread interest and wonder but until now Dittle has been mo about the artist’s patrons. This is the first comprehensive study of the sev individuals who financed encouraged and influenced El Greco’s extraordin ary artistic endeavours. Mann reconstructs the lives of several of the artist’s patrons and demonstrates how El Greco’s pictorial e recred the patrons” concerns. Thus the actual comment of El Greco’s work is established. The book indicates that the artist’s patrons helped no shape both the style and iconography of the paintings and clarifies the precise nature of the connection here the paintings and Spanish mysticism. In studying the purposes and meaning of El Greco’s religious paintings the author thereby provides the basis for a new interpretation of the artist’s work and presents many insights into life in sixteenth-century Spain.