[MGSA-L] Lecture on El Greco posted at Michigan

Vassilios Lambropoulos vlambrop at umich.edu
Tue Jun 2 09:04:52 PDT 2015


The Modern Greek Program at the University of Michigan 
has posted a new talk on its web page where it regularly uploads campus lectures:
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/modgreek/windowtogreekculture/lecturesatum	  


How Greek was El Greco?

A lecture by Andrew R. Casper, Assistant Professor of Art History, Miami University
delivered on January 22, 2015, at the University of Michigan

Born in Crete around 1541, there is no doubt about the ethnic origins of the painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos, better known as “El Greco” (“The Greek”). And yet the issue becomes much more complex when we take into consideration the painter’s artistic output and the multicultural path that he followed throughout his career. For an artist whose career spanned Crete, Venice, Rome, and Toledo (Spain), the issue of his “Greekness” results in something of a conflict between his own self-conception and the expectations of his audiences.  Marking four centuries since his death, this lecture examines the diversity of El Greco’s painting styles as well as the communicative goals of his signatures to explore the fraught issues of his Greek identity in late sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Europe.

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