Volume 22, Number 15 · October 2, 1975
Perplexing Painters
By Francis Haskell
El Greco: The Expressionism of His Final Years
by Enrique Lafuente Ferrari, with an Appendix by José Manuel Pita Andrade, translated by Robert Erich Wolf
Abrams, 172 pp. of text, 172 illus. pp., $175.00
Zurbarán
by Jonathan Brown
Abrams, 160, 108 illus. pp., $25.00
Velázquez
by José Gudiol
Viking, 352, 242 illus. pp., $45.00
The Changing Image: Prints by Francisco Goya
by Eleanor A. Sayre. the Department of Prints and Drawings
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 320, 300 illus. pp., $12.00 (paper)
Goya: 67 Drawings
Introduction and comments by A. Hyatt Mayor
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 144, 75 illus. pp., $15.00
Proud, cultivated, and hedonistic, El Greco was throughout his lifetime rightly considered to be a great and highly successful artist. We first hear of him in 1570, just arrived in Rome from Venice at the age of twenty-nine, as being 'rarely gifted in painting. And among other things he has made a portrait of himself which astounds all these Roman painters.' Forty years later, having long since settled in Spain, he and his workshop were turning out such a stream of saints and apostles, annunciations and baptisms, that a modern historian has referred to him as 'the Henry Ford of Toledo.'
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