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Domenicos Theotokopolos, better known as El Greco, is often seen as an artist out of his correct place and time. At first glance his dramatic, expressionistic paintings with their sinuous figures seem more at home in a modern art museum than among other Old Masters.
In this lecture, Isabelle Kent - an academic and educator specialising in the baroque - will explore how his distinctive style came to be, how it was received by his intrigued (and sometimes bemused) contemporaries. Examining his early years painting Byzantine icons in Crete, his studies in Venice and Rome, and finally his decades among the medieval splendour and humanist thought of Toledo.
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| Runtime | 60 mins |
Isabelle Kent is an academic and educator specialising in the baroque, with a particular focus on Spain and its empire. She received a BA and MPhil in History of Art from Trinity College, Cambridge, where she is currently completing her PhD on the art of Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Zurbarán. Isabelle teaches regularly for the V&A, Art Fund, Royal Academy, Chelsea Arts Club, Wallace Collection and University of Cambridge. Her book, Collecting Bartolomé Esteban Murillo in Britain and Ireland, was published in 2020.