Navarra global y Greco centenario: o cómo fijar la imagen de un mito artístico en la memoria colectiva [Global Navarre and El Greco’s centenary, or how to set the image of an artistic myth in the collective memory]

Abstract

This paper explores the mechanisms developed to set the image of el Greco in the Navarrese collective memory, in a process that attends to three main areas of action. The first one analyzes the texts and conferences that have addressed the figure of el Greco in Navarre since the 1920s to the present day. The second picks up the presence of the painter in three exhibitions held in Pamplona between 1993 and 2005, as well as in private Navarrese collections. Finally, we check his influence on Navarrese artists or linked professionally to the Foral Community, adopting a generational approach that starts from the awakening to modernity to the end of the 19th Century, and advances to artists from the middle and the second half of the Twentieth Century to the present day.