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The Baroque vortex : Velázquez, Calderón and Gracián under Philip IV
- Title
- The Baroque vortex : Velázquez, Calderón and Gracián under Philip IV / Thomas S. Acker.
- Author
- Acker, Thomas S., 1954-
- Publication
- New York : P. Lang, ©2000.
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- Description
- 152 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "If we look at the plays of Pedro Calderon de la Barca and the paintings of Diego Velazquez, the years 1635 to 1680 arguably mark the creative apex of Spain's "Golden Age." In subtle portraiture and court plays, classical imagery combined with Church orthodoxy connect antiquity's glories to Spain's Habsburg rule. The works of Baltasar Gracian, his allegorical Criticon (1651) and his prescriptive Agudeza y arte de ingenio (1648), offered other examples, and, in the case of the latter, explained this imagery. In these works, Gracian shares many of the same iconographic resources with Calderon and Velazquez. Commonalties in their historical, mythological, and religious subjects reveal the united and vigorous facade that Spain attempted to project through her arts.
- The Baroque Vortex compares some of the similarities and differences to be found in the works of these three contemporaries."--Jacket
- Series Statement
- Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures ; vol. 23
- Uniform Title
- Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures ; vol. 23.
- Subject
- Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660 > Criticism and interpretation
- Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681 > Criticism and interpretation
- Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658 > Criticism and interpretation
- Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
- Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658
- Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660
- Philipp IV. Spanien, König 1605-1665
- Calderon de la Barca, Pedro
- Calderón de la Barca, Pedro 1600-1681
- Gracián y Morales, Baltasar 1601-1658
- Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y 1599-1660
- Calderón de la Barca, Pedro > Metapher > Velázquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y > Malerei
- Velázquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y > Malerei > Calderón de la Barca, Pedro > Metapher
- Gracián y Morales, Baltasar > Metapher > Velázquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y > Malerei
- Velázquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y > Malerei > Gracián y Morales, Baltasar > Metapher
- Arts, Baroque > Spain
- Arts, Spanish
- Arts, Baroque
- Kunst
- Literatur
- Malerei
- Metapher
- Schilderkunst
- Letterkunde
- Symbolen
- Metaforen
- Spaans
- Metapher > Calderón de la Barca, Pedro > Velázquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y > Malerei
- Metapher > Gracián y Morales, Baltasar > Velázquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y > Malerei
- Spain
- Spanien
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-152).
- Contents
- Chapter I Intellectual Environment 11 -- Chapter II Syncretic Naturalism 35 -- Chapter III Myth of Habsburg Spain 51 -- Chapter IV Religious Syncretism 85 -- Chapter V Mythological Imagery 117.
- ISBN
- 082042367X
- 9780820423678
- LCCN
- 95034868
- OCLC
- ocm45052046
- 45052046
- SCSB-1147797
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library