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.

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.

Content

Preface 5

Flemish painting, Spain, Spanish

HispanuFleioish Paioting aod Ihe Intrusion oj the Italiao Reoaissaoce i470i 8

Juan de Flandes, Valencia, Pedro Berruguete

The Reoaissanee Ooce Remored 29

Titian, Kempeneer, Luis de Morales

The Reign of Philip II 48

El Escorial, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Mary of Hungary

El Greco 62

El Greco, Luis de Castilla, Toledo

atnralism io Castile aod Valeoeia i598i62i 79

Jusepe de Ribera, Madrid, Philip IV

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i0 Collectors aod Colleetioos 186

Alonso Cano, Agostino Mitelli, Trinitarian order

i2 Serille at MidCentnry l640i 200

Juan de Valdes, Zurbaran, Francisco Meneses Osorio

i3 The Nei r Era io Aodalnsia l660i 233

Palomino, Luca Giordano, Imperial Staircase

Notes 254

Jonathan Brown, Peter Cherry, Francisco de Zurbaran

Bihliography 267

PEDRO ANGULO, Juan Bautista Maino, PETER CHERRY

Index 275

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