Daily Life in Spain in the Golden Age
Daily Life in Spain in the Golden Age

Author: Marcelin Defourneaux

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780804710299

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A book about life in Spain from the succession of Philip II (1556) to the death of Philip IV (1665). The author relies primarily upon careful use of literary works and travel accounts written during this 'golden age'. In addition to delightful descriptions and anecdotes, he has woven into his text important political and economic developments. He provides a general view of Spain, stressing the importance of the Catholic faith and the emphasis upon personal honour, before surveying life and society in urban and rural areas. He then examines in some detail life in the Church, university, military and home; public entertainment; and the picaresque life.

Still Life
Still Life

Author: Norbert Schneider

Publisher: Taschen

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9783822820810

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How do the objects in a still life reflect the customs, ideas and aspirations of the time? This is one of the questions which Schneider asks in this book. Still lifes chart the history of scientific discoveries and their acceptance as well as the gradual replacement of the mediaeval concept of the world.

Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond, 14th to 18th Centuries
Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond, 14th to 18th Centuries

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-05-06

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9004395709

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This volume aims to show through various case studies how the interrelations between Jews, Muslims and Christians in Iberia were negotiated in the field of images, objects and architecture during the Later Middle Ages and Early Modernity. . By looking at the ways pre-modern Iberians envisioned diversity, we can reconstruct several stories, frequently interwoven with devotional literature, poetry or Inquisitorial trials, and usually quite different from a binary story of simple opposition. The book’s point of departure narrates the relationship between images and conversions, analysing the mechanisms of hybridity, and proposing a new explanation for the representation of otherness as the complex outcome of a negotiation involving integration. Contributors are: Cristelle Baskins, Giuseppe Capriotti, Ivana Čapeta Rakić, Borja Franco Llopis, Francisco de Asís García García, Yonatan Glazer-Eytan, Nicola Jennings, Fernando Marías, Elena Paulino Montero, Maria Portmann, Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza, Amadeo Serra Desfilis, Maria Vittoria Spissu, Laura Stagno, Antonio Urquízar-Herrera.

Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century
Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century

Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780894682117

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Heda's Banquet Piece, Frans Hals' Willem Coymans, and Rembrandt's Lucretia. Paintings by these and other masters attracted the American collectors P. A. B. Widener, his son Joseph, and Andrew W. Mellon, whose bequests form the heart of the National Gallery's distinguished and remarkably cohesive collection of ninety-one Dutch paintings.

Cervantes and the Pictorial Imagination
Cervantes and the Pictorial Imagination

Author: Ana María G. Laguna

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0838757278

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As a whole, this study demonstrates how, in order to examine a mind like Cervantes's, we need to approach his work and his world from a perspective as culturally integrative as his own." "This book includes twenty-eight illustrations."--Jacket.

Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes
Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes

Author: Frederick Alfred De Armas

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780838756249

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"This collection of essays seeks to open up this complex interdisciplinary field of study by including essays on many aspects of visual writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain."--Jacket.

Collections of Painting in Madrid, 1601–1755 (Parts 1 and 2)
Collections of Painting in Madrid, 1601–1755 (Parts 1 and 2)

Author: Marcus B. Burke

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 1810

ISBN-13: 0892364963

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This two-part book on collections of paintings in Madrid is part of the series Documents for the History of Collecting, Spanish Inventories 1, which presents volumes of art historical information based on archival records. One hundred forty inventories of noble and middle-class collections of art in Madrid are accompanied by two essays describing the taste and cultural atmosphere of Madrid in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.