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Pierre Bréant
Pierre Bréant is a journalist by profession. He began his career in Quebec at Radio-Canada. In France, he has contributed to numerous newspapers and publications (Arts, Diapason, Harmonie, La Vie Française) and worked for the AFP agency. As a music critic, he has produced several programs for Radio-France and Radio Suisse Romande. At France-Culture, he co-authored a series on the Grand Guignol with Gérard Gromer. He also wrote an opera libretto for composer Tolia Nikiprowetzky: La Veuve du héros (The Hero's Widow), and a novel about the fate of a Roaring Twenties painter, Couleurs de femme (Colors of a Woman), published by AKR.
From the land of icons to the heady Rome of Cardinal Farnese, from Titian's studio in Venice to the scorched earth of Castile, the life of the young Cretan is nothing but wrenching, fleeting loves, false starts, and passions. He already sees himself at the Escorial, the construction site of the time, but it is Toledo that makes him his own. And Domenikos Theotokopoulos truly becomes El Greco, with his consecration The Burial of the Count of Orgaz. From the top of his rock, this living legend watches the Century blaze, rubbing shoulders with the most enigmatic of kings, Philip II, and maintaining privileged, even mediumistic, relationships with the two figures of the moment: Madre Teresa (Teresa of Avila) and John of the Cross. He is fascinated by them, without, however, denying his freedom to live—a feat in the land of the Inquisition!—and his freedom to create. In the name of this same freedom, the bodies he paints stretch upwards, like flames. The flames of the love that presides over his life. His life: nothing less than a great adventure! Release date: November 1, 2023 Order
