Livia Stoenescu is Associate Professor of Art History at the College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station. She is the editor of Creative and Imaginative Powers in the Pictorial Art of El Greco (Brepols, 2016). In El Greco studies only, her contributions include "Pictorial Allegory in El Greco’s Laocoön of Toledo," RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics (2017) and "The Dialogue of Classical and Devotional Cultures in El Greco’s Laocoön of Toledo," Comitatus (2015).

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• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction List of Illustrations Chapter 1: Prototypal Images Reaffirmed in Early Modern Painting Chapter 2: Spanish Miraculous Images, Sacred Narratives, and Aesthetic Goals Chapter 3: El Greco's The Purification of the Temple Chapter 4: Reinventing the Nude in an Age of Censorship Chapter 5: The Dialogue of Classical and Devotional Cultures in El Greco's Laocoön of Toledo Notes Bibliography Index

Livia Stoenescu is Associate Professor of Art History at the College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station. She is the editor of Creative and Imaginative Powers in the Pictorial Art of El Greco (Brepols, 2016). In El Greco studies only, her contributions include "Pictorial Allegory in El Greco’s Laocoön of Toledo," RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics (2017) and "The Dialogue of Classical and Devotional Cultures in El Greco’s Laocoön of Toledo," Comitatus (2015).

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• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction List of Illustrations Chapter 1: Prototypal Images Reaffirmed in Early Modern Painting Chapter 2: Spanish Miraculous Images, Sacred Narratives, and Aesthetic Goals Chapter 3: El Greco's The Purification of the Temple Chapter 4: Reinventing the Nude in an Age of Censorship Chapter 5: The Dialogue of Classical and Devotional Cultures in El Greco's Laocoön of Toledo Notes Bibliography Index

Livia Stoenescu is Associate Professor of Art History at the College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station. She is the editor of Creative and Imaginative Powers in the Pictorial Art of El Greco (Brepols, 2016). In El Greco studies only, her contributions include "Pictorial Allegory in El Greco’s Laocoön of Toledo," RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics (2017) and "The Dialogue of Classical and Devotional Cultures in El Greco’s Laocoön of Toledo," Comitatus (2015).

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• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction List of Illustrations Chapter 1: Prototypal Images Reaffirmed in Early Modern Painting Chapter 2: Spanish Miraculous Images, Sacred Narratives, and Aesthetic Goals Chapter 3: El Greco's The Purification of the Temple Chapter 4: Reinventing the Nude in an Age of Censorship Chapter 5: The Dialogue of Classical and Devotional Cultures in El Greco's Laocoön of Toledo Notes Bibliography Index