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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Essays on the Arts ; 1Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1979Description: 1 online resource (201 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691241920
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 759.6
LOC classification:
  • ND806 .B76
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 that shaped his work. Jonathan Brown offers another approach to the subject by relating important Spanish Baroque paintings and painters to their cultural milieu.A critical survey of the historiography of seventeenth-century Spanish painting introduces this two-part collection of essays. Part One provides the most detailed study to date of the artistic-literary academy of Francisco Pacheco, and Part Two contains original studies of four major painters and their works: Las Meninas of Velázquez, Zurbarán's decoration of the sacristy at Guadalupe, and the work by Murillo and Valdés Leal for the Brotherhood of Charity, Seville. The essays are unified by the author's intention to show how the artists interacted with and responded to the prevailing social, theological, and historical currents of the time. While this contextual approach is not uncommon in the study of European art, it is newly applied here to restore some of the diversity and substance that Spanish Baroque painting originally possessed.
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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

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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 that shaped his work. Jonathan Brown offers another approach to the subject by relating important Spanish Baroque paintings and painters to their cultural milieu.A critical survey of the historiography of seventeenth-century Spanish painting introduces this two-part collection of essays. Part One provides the most detailed study to date of the artistic-literary academy of Francisco Pacheco, and Part Two contains original studies of four major painters and their works: Las Meninas of Velázquez, Zurbarán's decoration of the sacristy at Guadalupe, and the work by Murillo and Valdés Leal for the Brotherhood of Charity, Seville. The essays are unified by the author's intention to show how the artists interacted with and responded to the prevailing social, theological, and historical currents of the time. While this contextual approach is not uncommon in the study of European art, it is newly applied here to restore some of the diversity and substance that Spanish Baroque painting originally possessed.

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