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Semester | spring semester 2019 |
Course frequency | Once only |
Lecturers | Jérémie Koering (jeremie.koering@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
Content | Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known as El Greco, is the most elusive artist of the late Renaissance because of the strangeness of his career and art production. A Greek-Byzantine painter in his early days, then protagonist of the Venetian pictorial tradition during his Italian stay, he finally embodied the most radical Mannerist art when he finally settled in Spain. However, this switch from one artistic way (maniera) to another has never ceased to question and surprise. How can works of such different styles be brought together under the same identity? How can we understand this artistic metamorphosis at a time when the opposition between the maniera greca and the maniera latina seemed to prohibit any porosity between two systems of representation as distant as that of the icon and that of the Albertian storia? The answer certainly lies in a way of conceiving imitation and composition in painting as bricolage (synthesis). By analysing several paintings from the Cretan, Italian and Spanish periods, based on the intuitions of several modern artists such as Willumsen and Eisenstein, it will be possible to find, beyond appearances, the profound unity of El Greco’s work. |
Bibliography | - Andrew R. Casper, dans Art and Religious Painting in El Greco’s Italy, University Park, 2014 - Max Dvořák, «Über Greco und den Manierismus», dans id., Kunstgeschichte als Geistesgeschichte, Munich, 1928, p. 261–276 - Sergueï Eisenstein, «El Greco y el cine», dans id., Cinématisme. Peinture et cinéma, textes inédits, 2e éd., Dijon/Paris, 2009, p. 65–126 - Jérémie Koering, «Greco, encore une fois», dans Wiederholung/Répétition : Wiederkehr, Variation und Übersetzung in der Kunst (actes du congrès du Centre Allemand d’Histoire), sous la direction de Andreas Beyer, Étienne Jollet et Markus Rath, Deutsche Kunstverlag, Passagen/Passages, Berlin, 2018, p. 1-17 - Richard G. Mann, «Tradition and originality in el Greco’s work», dans Quidditas 23, 2002, p. 83–110 Fernando Marías, El Greco : Biographie d’un peintre extravagant, Paris, 1997 - Xavier de Salas et Fernando Marías, El Greco y el arte de su tiempo. Las notas de El Greco a Vasari, Madrid, 1992 - Livia Stoenescu (ed.), Creative and Imaginative Powers in the Pictorial Art of El Greco, Turnhout, Brepols, 2016 - Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, La jeunesse du peintre El Greco. Essai sur la transformation de l’artiste byzantin en peintre européen, 2 vol., t. 2, Paris, 1927 |
Course application | Anmeldung über Mona notwendig. |
Language of instruction | English |
Use of digital media | Online, optional |
Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
Modules |
Modul: Frühe Neuzeit (Bachelor's degree subject: Art History) Modul: Kunsttheorie und Methodik (Master's degree subject: Art History) Modul: Kunsttheorie und Methodik (Master's degree program: Art History and Image Theory) Modul: Profil: Frühe Neuzeit (Master's degree program: Art History and Image Theory) Modul: Werk und Kontext (Master's degree program: Art History and Image Theory) Modul: Werk und Kontext (Master's degree subject: Art History) |
Assessment format | continuous assessment |
Assessment details | Research paper (3 to 4 pages with bibliography) and oral presentation. |
Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
Scale | Pass / Fail |
Repeated registration | no repetition |
Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
Offered by | Fachbereich Kunstgeschichte |