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 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. In this up-to-date and innovative analysis of two hundred years of Spanish painting, Brown describes a country that brilliantly transformed the artistie impulses it received from abroad to fit the needs of its own society.
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El Greco, Ribera, Velazquez, Murillo -- these are but a few of the great sixteenth- and seventeenth-century artist 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.
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I am delighted with this book. It is ideal for teaching university students. It not only provides fresh insights into the social milieu as well as the the paintings themselves, it also has an excellent updated bibliography of the literature on the subject. For the past two decades I have lamented the fact that the Kubler-Soria Pelican book on Art and Architecture in Spain had become first increasingly outdated and then out of print. This book fills that gap splendidly - although I do wish it had been possible to include sculpture in the book as well: the interactions between these two art forms is very important. One other minor criticism: the book emphasizes the importance of the regional schools of painting in the 16th century, yet nowhere in the book is there a map of Spain showing those regions! Next edition of the book, I hope one is included.
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This is more a history of art patronage and politics than an analysis of Spanish painting during this period. It reduces art criticism to tracing a uni-dimensional causality: why who commissioned whom. There is very little analysis of the paintings themselves, the painters' distinct artistic personalities or the intellectual milieu which shaped these works, most notably trends within Counter-Reformation piety. The book does cover the major painters (and many minor and best forgotten ones) in the major centers of artistic production in the peninsula. The pictures many in black and white are ample and well-reproduced.
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During the fifteenth century, the influence of Flemish painting in the Iberian Peninsula was dominant. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Jusepe de Ribera, Adoration of the Shepherds, Immaculate Conception, Alonso Cano, Virgin Mary, Buen Retiro, Counter Reformation, Museum of Art, National Gallery, Christ Child, Francisco Pacheco, Francisco Rizi, Last Supper, Spanish Habsburgs, Adoration of the Magi, Annibale Carracci, Antonio de Pereda, Herrera the Younger, Juan de Flandes, New Room, Vicente Carducho, Guido Reni, Luca Giordano, New World, Pedro Orrente New!
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During the fifteenth century, the influence of Flemish painting in the Iberian Peninsula was dominant. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Jusepe de Ribera, Adoration of the Shepherds, Immaculate Conception, Alonso Cano, Virgin Mary, Buen Retiro, Counter Reformation, Museum of Art, National Gallery, Christ Child, Francisco Pacheco, Francisco Rizi, Last Supper, Spanish Habsburgs, Adoration of the Magi, Annibale Carracci, Antonio de Pereda, Herrera the Younger, Juan de Flandes, New Room, Vicente Carducho, Guido Reni, Luca Giordano, New World, Pedro Orrente New!
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- Still Life by American Federation Of Art on 5 pages
- Kings and Connoisseurs by Jonathan Brown in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Spanish Still Life from Velazquez to Goya by Jordan & cherry in Back Matter
- Lives of the Artists (Classics) by Giorgio Vasari on page 64
- A Golden Age: The Golden Age of Radio (Smithsonian Odyssey) by Martha Wickham in Back Matter
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- Madrid (Insight City Guide Madrid) by Insight Guides on page 77
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