The Sacred Made Real

Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600-1700

10/2009


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This book is the first serious study in English to reappraise an art form crucial to the development of Spanish art. In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, sculptors such as Juan de Mesa, Juan Martínez Montañés, Alonso Cano and Pedro de Mena worked in a unique relationship with painters, combining their skills to depict, with astonishing realism, the great religious themes. Wooden sculptures of the saints, the Immaculate Conception and the Passion of Christ were painstakingly carved, gessoed and intricately painted, even embellished with glass eyes and tears and ivory teeth. Sometimes shockingly graphic in their depiction of Christs sufferings, or beautifully clothed, as if brought to life, these were objects of divine inspiration to the faithful, whether on altars, or processed through the streets on holy days.

Titel zum Thema:
Alt-Spanien  Spanien, Kunst; Malerei  Spanien, Kunst; Plastik  Xlondon  Xwashington