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El Greco Paints the Grand Inquisitor
Stefan Andres
出版
Dimension Press
, 1989
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Historical / General
ISBN
0911173013
9780911173017
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uXIHAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
El Greco, the absolute artist, whose paintings afford a glimpse of the human soul, is summoned to paint a portrait of Cardinal Nino de Guevara, the despised Grand Inquisitor of Spain, an inordinately cruel man - with deeply held convictions. The painter from Greece faces the choices open to all those who live and work in an age of despotic suppression: to flee, to capitulate, or to be a witness for truth, regardless of the consequences. El Greco and his friend Dr. Cazalla do what they must to retain their personal freedom while living in virtual bondage. Stefan Andres wrote El Greco Paints the Grand Inquisitor in 1935 as new restraints were being imposed by the Nazis on the artistic community in Germany. Upon its publication in 1936 it was recognized immediately as a veiled document of resistance to Nazi tyranny. It depicts the struggle of the indomitable painter to record, for ages yet to come, the viper in the eye of the feared cardinal.
