Netherlandish Art and Luxury Goods in Renaissance Spain
Netherlandish Art and Luxury Goods in Renaissance Spain

Author: Robrecht Janssen

Publisher: Studies in Medieval and Early

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781909400825

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This collection of essays explores the diverse ways in which Netherlandish art and luxury goods permeated the artistic landscape of Renaissance Spain. Covering a wide range of approaches and perspectives, the book includes studies on carved altarpieces, stone sculpture, painting, tapestry, architectural design, prints and mathematical instruments. Through the lens of artists, patrons, collectors, merchants and other intermediaries, special attention is paid to local cultures of collecting and display. Together, the essays provide a fascinating and multifaceted view of the reciprocal relationships between the Low Countries and Spain from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. With contributions by Maite Barrio Olano, Ion Berasain Salvarredi, Iain Buchanan, Krista De Jonge, Raymond Fagel, Noelia Garcia Perez, Dirk Imhof, Nicola Jennings, Ethan Matt Kavaler, Jesus Muniz Petralanda, Eduardo Lamas-Delgado, Abigail Newman, Stephanie Porras, Antonia Putzger, Koenraad Van Cleempoel, Paul Vandenbroeck and Elena Vazquez Duenas.

A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance
A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance

Author: Hilaire Kallendorf

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004330931

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A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance makes a renewed case for the inclusion of Spain within broader European Renaissance movements. This interdisciplinary volume offers a snapshot of the best new work being done in this area

The Renaissance in Italy and Spain
The Renaissance in Italy and Spain

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 0870994328

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"This volume presents a full range of artistic endeavor from the first awakenings of the Renaissance spirit in the works of Berlinghiero, Giotto, and Pisano, to the climactic creations of Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Titian, and Veronese- the masters of the High Renaissance. The artists of Italy and Spain worked in every medium, all of which are represented in this volume: paintings, drawings, and prints; sculpture in stone, wood, and terra-cotta; glass, metal, and porcelain; furniture and musical instrument; costumes and armor."--Page 2 of cover.

Admiration and Awe
Admiration and Awe

Author: Antonio Urquízar Herrera

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0198797451

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This book explores the appropriation of Islamic architecture by Spanish historians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, illuminating its relationship to the development of Spanish national identity.

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

Author: Marina Belozerskaya

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2005-10-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0892367857

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Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern Europe
The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern Europe

Author: Thomas James Dandelet

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-04-14

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0521769930

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Examines the intellectual and artistic foundations of the Imperial Renaissance in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy and traces its political realization in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.

Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire
Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire

Author: Laura Fernández-González

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2021-05-10

Total Pages: 571

ISBN-13: 0271089962

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Philip II of Spain was a major patron of the arts, best known for his magnificent palace and royal mausoleum at the Monastery of San Lorenzo of El Escorial. However, neither the king’s monastery nor his collections fully convey the rich artistic landscape of early modern Iberia. In this book, Laura Fernández-González examines Philip’s architectural and artistic projects, placing them within the wider context of Europe and the transoceanic Iberian dominions. Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire investigates ideas of empire and globalization in the art and architecture of the Iberian world during the sixteenth century, a time when the Spanish Empire was one of the largest in the world. Fernández-González illuminates Philip’s use of building regulations to construct an imperial city in Madrid and highlights the importance of his transformation of the Simancas fortress into an archive. She analyzes the refashioning of his imperial image upon his ascension to the Portuguese throne and uses the Hall of Battles in El Escorial as a lens through which to understand visual culture, history writing, and Philip’s kingly image as it was reflected in the funeral commemorations mourning his death across the Iberian world. Positioning Philip’s art and architectural programs within the wider cultural context of politics, legislation, religion, and theoretical trends, Fernández-González shows how design and images traveled across the Iberian world and provides a nuanced assessment of Philip’s role in influencing them. Original and important, this panoramic work will have a lasting impact on Philip II’s artistic legacy. Art historians and scholars of Iberia and sixteenth-century history will especially value Fernández-González’s research.

Spanish and Portuguese 16th Century Books in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts
Spanish and Portuguese 16th Century Books in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts

Author: Harvard College Library. Department of Printing and Graphic Arts

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Houghton Library : Harvard College Library

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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Nearly all the Spanish and Portuguese books in the Department were collected and given to the Library by the late Philip Hofer, founding Curator of the Department. They reflect his personal taste and his awareness of the historical importance of such a collection - foreword.

Bramante's Tempietto, the Roman Renaissance, and the Spanish Crown
Bramante's Tempietto, the Roman Renaissance, and the Spanish Crown

Author: Jack Freiberg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-11-10

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1316061345

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The Tempietto, the embodiment of the Renaissance mastery of classical architecture and its Christian reinvention, was also the pre-eminent commission of the Catholic kings, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabel of Castile, in papal Rome. This groundbreaking book situates Bramante's time-honored memorial dedicated to Saint Peter and the origins of the Roman Catholic Church at the center of a coordinated program of the arts exalting Spain's leadership in the quest for Christian hegemony. The innovations in form and iconography that made the Tempietto an authoritative model for Western architecture were fortified in legacy monuments created by the popes in Rome and the kings in Spain from the later Renaissance to the present day. New photographs expressly taken for this study capture comprehensive views and focused details of this exemplar of Renaissance art and statecraft.