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Spanish Art in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1920
From the Golden Age to Goya. This is the first study wholly devoted to reception of Spanish art in Britain and Ireland. Examining the extent and sources of knowledge of Spanish art in the British Isles during an age of increasing contact, particularly in theaftermath of the Peninsular War, it contains contributions by leading scholars, including reprints of three essays by Enriqueta Harris Frankfort, to whose memory this book is dedicated. Focusing on Spanish art from the Golden Age to Goya, these studies chart the growth in understanding and appreciation of the Spanish School, and its punctuation by controversies and continuing distrust of religious images in Protestant Britain, as well as ...
Artists and Aesthetics in Spain
Essays on: Giorgione and Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy; The Escorial and Philip II; El Greco's Greek Phantasy and Toledo's Fantasia; Francisco Zurbarn and the claritas of Bright Colours; Velzquez and Francisco Snchez: the precursor of Descartes; Goya and Benito Feijoo: the artist's liberation through the new sensibility; Pablo Picasso and Rubén Daro: the new world of rhythms.
Painting in Spain
El 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...
Manet/Velázquez
Here approximately two hundred works by French and Spanish artists chart the development of this cultural influence and map a fascinating shift in the paradigm of painting, from Idealism to Realism, from Italy to Spain, from Renaissance to Baroque. Above all, these images demonstrate how direct contact with Spanish painting fired the imagination of nineteenth-century French artists and brought about the triumph of Realism in the 1860s, and with it a foundation for modern art."--BOOK JACKET.
The Arts of Spain
This fully illustrated book discusses arts from the Iberian Peninsula and Hispanic America from the time of the Reconquest of Granada to the decline of the Hapsburg dynasty in Spain. It includes paintings, sculpture, books and engravings, tapestries, furnishings, ceramics and architecture.
The Discovery of Spain
This unprecedented survey contains contributions from renowned scholars and illustrates the work of the Spanish masters Velázquez, El Greco, Goya and Picasso, and the British artists David Wilkie, David Roberts, John Phillip, Arthur Melville and David Bomberg This lavishly illustrated book celebrates the impact of Spanish culture on British art and collecting from the 1790s to the 1930s - the Napoleonic period to the Spanish Civil War. Spain is now a familiar and much-loved part of the British view of Europe, but in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it was still relatively unknown. This book captures the excitement of this era, a time when Spain's architecture, customs, fashions and p...
Spanish Art - An Introductory Review of Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Textiles, Ceramics, Woodwork, Metalwork
Spanish Art - An Introductory Review of Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Textiles, Ceramics, Woodwork, Metalwork.' by Robert Rattray Tatlock. Tatlock was an art critic and historian. He was born in Glasgow and educated at the Glasgow Academy, Glasgow School of Art and Royal Technical College where he studied art. During the First World War he served with the British Red Cross in France and Russia, and in 1917 he was attached to the British Adriatic Mission.
