For Renaissance artists whose purpose was to portray human figures convincingly knowledge of anatomy, which is based on the dissection of bodies, was essential. In the case of El Greco, who received his first artistic ...

The concepts "coincidentia oppositorum" and "hankan gõitso" were respectively formulated in the West and the Far East (Japan). The essence of both is that harmony is created when opposites coincide in a structural unity. ...

Without clear articulation of their insights, except in painted copies of and citations from his works, various modern artists seem to have recognised that formally El Greco’s late paintings are mental constructs, representing ...