Images and Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Images and Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting
By (Author) Jonathan Brown
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
2nd April 1979
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Paintings and painting
759.6
Physical Properties
Paperback
201
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
312g
Description
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
Author Bio
Jonathan Brown (19392022) was the Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute for Fine Arts at New York University and the author of a number of books, including Velzquez: Painter and Courtier; Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe; Painting in Spain, 15001700; and In the Shadow of Velzquez: A Life in Art History.
