Greco ou le secret de Tolède

Réf. 56897

Vendu

Paris - Plon - 1923.

Format : In-12.
Number of volumes : 1 volume.
Binding : Paperback.
Collation : 182 pp.

Printed soft cover. Slightly brown leaves. Cover and back a little faded. Expanded edition of a few unpublished pages with 14 out-of-text reproductions.

New edition.

"For three centuries this city has been ruined, it has kept its tradition, it will fall apart before it gives up". At the time of El Greco, it was indeed this same city that I see, this same river which flows before my eyes; it remains always the city built on a granite rock, bitterly surrounded by the deep ravine of the Tagus. In the middle of a motionless country, it still forms an enormous cluster, a composite ascent of churches, convents, Gothic houses, raised and narrowed Arab corridors. And his stones continue to say the same things that Greco had heard and that he fortifies with the abundant discourse of his paintings in the dilapidated chapels. The reasons for Toledo! is a superb dialogue between Christian culture and Arabic, which are both assaulted and then confused".

In good condition.