Images and Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting / / Jonathan Brown.

Art historians have often minimized the variety and complexity of seventeenth-century Spanish painting by concentrating on individual artists and their works and by stressing discovery of new information rather than interpretation. As a consequence, the painter emerges in isolation from the forces t...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©1979
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Princeton Essays on the Arts ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (201 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS
  • INTRODUCTION: OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SPANISH PAINTING
  • PART I: THEORY AND ART IN THE ACADEMY OF FRANCISCO PACHECO
  • 1. A Community of Scholars
  • 2. El Arte de la Pintura as an Academic Document
  • 3. Theory into Practice: The Arts and the Academy
  • PART II: PAINTERS AND PROGRAMS
  • 4. On the Meaning of Las Meninas
  • 5. Zurbaran's Paintings in the Sacristy of the Monastery of Guadalupe
  • 6. Hieroglyphs of Death and Salvation: The Decoration of the Church of the Hermandad de la Caridad, Seville
  • EPILOGUE
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX