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dc.contributor.author | Mare, Estelle Alma![]() |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2009-07-03T07:21:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-07-03T07:21:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article introduces a neglected aspect of El Greco’s fantasia, namely the hidden geometric frameworks of his later compositions which, when discovered by the viewer, reveal El Greco’s scientific approach to art and his aptitude to express figural proportions and compositional relationships in terms of geometric forms, constructed both symmetrically and asymmetrically with great precision. The research focuses more specifically on the Virgin and Child with Saints Agnes and Martina, in which case an unusual interpretation is offered of the meaning that the hidden double coded geometric framework adds to the subject matter. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | La géométrie cachée chez El Greco : analyse des Sephiroth de la Kabbale dissimulés dans la Vierge à l’enfant avec sainte Agnès et sainte Martine. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Cet article présente un aspect jusqu’alors négligé de la créativité de El Greco. La découverte de réseaux géométriques cachés dans les oeuvres tardives de El Greco atteste son approche scientifique à l’art et sa capacité à exprimer la proportion des figures et les rapports de composition selon des schémas géométriques construits symétriquement et asymétriquement avec une grande précision. La recherche se concentre sur la Vierge à l’enfant avec sainte Agnès et sainte Martine. On y propose une interprétation nouvelle du sens que le double réseau géométrique masqué ajoute à l’iconographie. | en_US |
dc.description.uri | http://explore.up.ac.za/record=b1719138 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Maré, EA 2006, 'El Greco’s use of hidden geometry: an analysis of the concealed Kabbalistic sefirot in the Virgin and Child with Saints Agnes and Martina', South African Journal of Art History, vol. 21, no.2, pp 101-116. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sajah.html] | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0258-3542 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/10625 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Art Historical Work Group of South Africa | en_US |
dc.rights | Art Historical Work Group of South Africa | en_US |
dc.subject | Kabbalah, Christian | en_US |
dc.subject | Sefirot | en_US |
dc.subject | El Greco | en_US |
dc.subject | Hidden geometry | en_US |
dc.title | El Greco’s use of hidden geometry : an analysis of the concealed Kabbalistic sefirot in the Virgin and Child with Saints Agnes and Martina | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |