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Author: Indianapolis Museum of Art
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exhibition catalogue that examines the cultural role of the Church in the seventeenth-century religious art of Spain and Spanish America, illustrated with numerous color and black-and-white reproductions of paintings, sculptures, metalwork, and books.
Author: Xavier Bray
Publisher: National Gallery London
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This text reappraises an art form crucial to the development of Spanish art. In 16th and 17th-century Spain, sculptors worked in a unique relationship with painters, combining their skills to depict, with astonishing realism, the great religious themes"--OCLC
Author: Susan Verdi Webster
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780691048192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor nearly five centuries, lay religious groups throughout the Spanish-speaking world have staged elaborate public processions commemorating the events of Christ's passion during Holy Week. In the Golden Age, such processions featured extraordinarily lifelike sculpted images that were naturalistically painted, elaborately clothed and adorned, and surrounded by convincing stage properties and scenography--all of which combined to create a profound impression on spectators. Long dismissed as a minor form of popular art, these polychrome wood sculptures emerge from this book as a unique genre, one that can be best understood within its ritual context. Here, Susan Verdi Webster explores the Holy Week processions of penitential confraternities in Golden-Age Seville, for which many of Spain's greatest sculptors created some of the most illusionistic works ever. She demonstrates how the pivotal role of the sculptures in procession transformed them from carved wooden objects to catalysts for intense spiritual and emotional experiences shared by spectators in the streets. Drawing on extensive archival evidence and contemporary chronicles, Webster is among the first to examine in depth Spanish processional sculpture, its patrons, and its ritual function. Her inquiry wends through a kaleidoscopic variety of arenas--artistic, religious, social, cultural, and political--to provide a fascinating perspective on popular religious devotion in Golden-Age Spain and on a previously undervalued dimension of Spanish sculpture.
Author: Jonathan Brown
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780300064742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEl Greco, Ribera, Velázquez, Murillo--these are but a few of the great sixteenth- and seventeenth-century artists of Spain's golden age of painting. In this authoritative and handsome book, an enlarged, extended, and revised version of his Golden Age of Painting in Spain, eminent Spanish art scholar Jonathan Brown surveys the development of painting in Spain during this fascinating period. Focusing on the interaction between art and the socioeconomic and political conditions that prevailed in Spain's golden age, this book offers information about religious beliefs, social attitudes, the activities of patrons and collectors, and how these were absorbed and interpreted by painters. The author sets the history of Spanish paintings within a European context and explores Spain's contact with artistic centers in Italy and the Netherlands. He discusses not only Spanish artists but also such non-Spanish painters as Titian, Ruben, and Luca Giordano, who either worked in Spain or influenced other artists there. Brown also examines the collections of foreign paintings that Spanish noblemen and prelates assembled and how these collections affected the production of art and the social status of the Spanish artist. In this up-to-date and innovative analysis of two hundred years of Spanish painting, Brown describes a country that brilliantly transformed the artistic impulses it received from abroad to fit the needs of its own society.
Author: Albert Frederick Calvert
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-06-03
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book details nearly all of Spain's most famous sculptures starting from the Byzantine period and continuing into those influenced by the School of Granada and Alonso Cano. Featured in written work are sculptures of St. Mary Magdalene and Santo Domingo in Leon Cathedral as well as a statue of St. Michael Slaying the Devil in Salamenca Museum.
Author: Pedro de Palol
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 516
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-01
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1317058607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the past decade, there has been a surge of Anglophone scholarship regarding Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which has led to a reframing of the discourses around Spanish culture of this period. Despite this new interest-in which painting, in particular, has been singled out for treatment-a comprehensive study of sculpture collections and the status of sculpture in Spain has yet to be produced. Sculpture Collections in Early Modern Spain is the first book to assess the phenomenon of sculpture collecting and in doing so, it alters the previously held notion that Spanish society placed little value in this art form. Di Dio and Coppel reveal that, due to the problems and expense of their transport from Italy, sculptures were in fact status symbols in the culture. Thus they were an important component of the collections formed by the royal family, cultivated noble collectors, humanists, and artists who had pretensions of high status. This book is especially useful to specialists for its discussion of the typologies of collections and objects, and of the mechanics of state gifts, transport, and collection display in this period. An appendix presents extensive archival documentation, most of which has never before been published. The authors have uncovered hundreds of new documents about sculpture in Spain; and new documentary evidence allows them to propose several new identifications and attributions. Firmly grounded in extensive archival research, Sculpture Collections in Early Modern Spain redefines the socio-political and art historical importance of sculpture in early modern Spain. Most importantly, it entirely transforms our knowledge regarding the presence of sculpture in a wide range of Spanish collections of the period, which until now has been erroneously characterized as close to non-existent.
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Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2016-07-15
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1783168609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only volume on the work of Vicente Carducho in English Analysis of the Dialogues on Painting by international experts Contributors are art historians or hispanists, offering a multi-disciplinary approach
Author: Pamela Anne Patton
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0271053836
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Examines the influential role of visual images in reinforcing the efforts of Spain's Christian-ruled kingdoms to renegotiate the role of their Jewish minority following the territorial expansions of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Victoria and Albert Museum
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 210
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The collection comprises a number of outstanding pieces from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many of which were previously unpublished."--Jacket.
