Research Catalog

Title

The Spanish portrait : from El Greco to Picasso / Javier Portús [and others].

Publication

London : Scala, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Portús Pérez, Javier.
• Museo del Prado.

Description

398 pages : color illustrations; 30 cm

Summary

"The Spanish Portrait from El Greco to Picasso is an unprecedented survey of Spanish portrait painting and the development of this genre in Spanish art from the late fifteenth century to the early decades of the twentieth. Drawing on the collections of the Museo del Prado and other major international collections, it is the first book to cover more than 500 years of Spanish art from the viewpoint of the portrait. It features a selection of eighty-seven works and includes all the leading names in this field. This book is the first to present the stylistic evolution of the Spanish portrait, the differing social implications of the genre in Spain, the formulation by the various sitters of the self-image they wished to convey to posterity, and the various representational devices and strategies used by the artists of each period."--Jacket.

Subject

• Portraits, Spanish > Exhibitions
• Portrait painting, Spanish > Exhibitions
• Portrait painting, Spanish
• Portraits, Spanish
• Portretkunst
• Schilderijen

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Oct. 20, 2004-Feb. 6, 2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 382-395)

Contents

The varied fortunes of the portrait in Spain / Javier Portús -- The origin of portrait painting in Spain : from the absence of specialists to the large workshop / Miguel Falomir -- Court portraits in the Spanish monarchy (1530-1660) / Leticia Ruiz Gómez -- The portraits of El Greco / José́ Álvarez Lopera -- Portrait and reality : Ribalta, Zurbarán, Ribera / Gabriele Finaldi -- Velázquez and the Baroque portrait / Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez -- Goya, a free 'disciple' of Velázquez / Manuela B. Mena Marqués -- The Spanish portrait in the eighteenth century / Nigel Glendinning -- The Spanish portrait in the nineteenth century : the triumph of a genre / José Luis Díez -- The Spanish portrait from Zuloaga to Picasso / Javier Barón.

ISBN

• 185759374X
• 9781857593747

OCLC

• ocm57392781
• 57392781
• SCSB-1345864

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library