The Visual and the Textual in a Painting of El Greco
Friday 13th March, 4:30 p.m - O鈥橰ahilly Building, ORB 1.24
DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH, PORTUGUESE AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURES
DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH SEMINAR
The Visual and the Textual in a Painting of El Greco
Speaker: Professor Terence O鈥橰eilly (UCC)
Friday 13th March, 4 p.m.
O鈥橰ahilly Building, ORB 1.24
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El Greco鈥檚 painting of Saints Peter and Paul in the National Museum of Stockholm is one of three on the subject that he composed between c.1587 and c.1608. It portrays the meeting of the two men in Jerusalem recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. The paper will consider the connections in the work between the visual and the textual by examining two details of its iconography: the enigmatic background scene and the open book in the foreground. It will argue that these features are designed to bring to the viewer鈥檚 attention specific passages in the letters of St Paul, and it will explore the connotations that the passages in question had for El Greco鈥檚 contemporaries in Toledo.
Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
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