A complete account of the complex career of this Venetian painter focusing on the crucial moments of the development of his expressive style, which was surprisingly ahead of its time. The volume contains reproductions of forty-five paintings and forty d

A detailed study which examines Coello's life and work, his sources and influences, the history of his major commissions, the iconography of his paintings and the impact of his art on later painters. With appendices of documentary evidence on the artist and his contemporaries. Includes a catalogue raisonné.