Another of El Greco’s enigmas: a skeptical painter doing religious painting?
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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2015.776n6007Keywords:
religious painting, Greek Orthodox Church, Roman Catholic faith, iconography, Porfirius Plotinus, Dionysius the AeropagiteAbstract
Contrary to current opinion, El Greco was not only a prolific painter of religious pictures, but also person of entrenched beliefs both as a member of an Orthodox family, and when he converted to the Roman Catholic faith, as is clear from many episodes and events in his life and death. This hypothesis is borne out by the correct and traditional iconography in his religious paintings, and in the ideological, technical and expressive aspects of his work.
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