Eccentric Renaissance

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Eccentric Renaissance is written by Charles Barber and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190209003 (ISBN 10) and 9780190209001 (ISBN 13).

Eccentric Renaissance shows how El Greco and two other sixteenth-century Cretan artists, Michael Damaskenos and Georgios Klontzas, actively engaged in a re-casting of the Byzantine tradition of icon painting on the Venetian colony of Crete. In so doing, they created art that articulated a point of view that was shaped outside of and against the hegemonic world of Vasari's account of art history. Building upon their own tradition, they developed a highly original understanding of the icon and explored its power to reconcile Byzantine and Renaissance styles of painting and provide a response to the growing presence of Islam.