276 - The End Of Desacrilization in Art
The Symbolic World
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The Inversion of the Body in El Greco
El Greco is a great example of what's going on in terms of art as something like desacralization. El Greco, in his own story, moved from being a traditional icon painter to being a Renaissance painter. What I want to suggest in this move towards mannerism is really a kind of inversion. And the inversion appears visually. It appears in some ways the perspective of the Earth, you know, moving up and taking the place of heaven.
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