Painting in Spain, 1500-1700 (The Yale University Press Pelican Histor) - Hardcover

Brown, Professor Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300064721 ISBN 13: 9780300064728

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Focusing on the interaction between art and the socio-economic 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 painting within a European context and explores Spain's contact with artistic centres in Italy and the Netherlands. He discusses not only Spanish artists but also such non-Spanish painters as Titian, Rubens, 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Jonathan Brown is Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0300064721
• ISBN 13: 9780300064728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 290