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Author : Susan Verdi Webster
Release : 1998
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Book Synopsis Art and Ritual in Golden-Age Spain. Sevillian Confraternities and the Processional Sculpture Of by : Susan Verdi Webster
Download or read book Art and Ritual in Golden-Age Spain. Sevillian Confraternities and the Processional Sculpture Of written by Susan Verdi Webster. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marjorie Trusted
Release : 1999
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Book Synopsis Susan Verdi Webster. Art and Ritual in Golden-age Spain: Sevillian Confraternities and the Processional Sculpture of Holy Week. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. [Book Review]. by : Marjorie Trusted
Download or read book Susan Verdi Webster. Art and Ritual in Golden-age Spain: Sevillian Confraternities and the Processional Sculpture of Holy Week. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. [Book Review]. written by Marjorie Trusted. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Verdi Webster
Release : 1998
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Art and Ritual in Golden-Age Spain by : Susan Verdi Webster
Download or read book Art and Ritual in Golden-Age Spain written by Susan Verdi Webster. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly five centuries, lay religious groups throughout the Spanish-speaking world have staged elaborate public processions commemorating the events of Christ's passion during Holy Week. In the Golden Age, such processions featured extraordinarily lifelike sculpted images that were naturalistically painted, elaborately clothed and adorned, and surrounded by convincing stage properties and scenography--all of which combined to create a profound impression on spectators. Long dismissed as a minor form of popular art, these polychrome wood sculptures emerge from this book as a unique genre, one that can be best understood within its ritual context. Here, Susan Verdi Webster explores the Holy Week processions of penitential confraternities in Golden-Age Seville, for which many of Spain's greatest sculptors created some of the most illusionistic works ever. She demonstrates how the pivotal role of the sculptures in procession transformed them from carved wooden objects to catalysts for intense spiritual and emotional experiences shared by spectators in the streets. Drawing on extensive archival evidence and contemporary chronicles, Webster is among the first to examine in depth Spanish processional sculpture, its patrons, and its ritual function. Her inquiry wends through a kaleidoscopic variety of arenas--artistic, religious, social, cultural, and political--to provide a fascinating perspective on popular religious devotion in Golden-Age Spain and on a previously undervalued dimension of Spanish sculpture.
Author : Felipe Pereda
Release : 2019-01-09
Genre : Art and religion
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Book Synopsis Crime and Illusion by : Felipe Pereda
Download or read book Crime and Illusion written by Felipe Pereda. This book was released on 2019-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to an old historiographic tradition, the Spanish Golden Age placed the imitation of nature at the service of religion: its radical naturalism responded to the deep faith of that culture and moment. Crime & Illusion argues the opposite. It defends the thesis that the fundamental problem artists of the Golden Age confronted was not imitation but Truth. Moreover a large part, maybe the best part, of Spanish Baroque religious imagery is better understood as a complex exercise in addressing the spectators' doubts. Hovering on the horizon of an emerging empiricism, artists created their images as pieces of evidence, arguments for belief. Crime & Illusion reconstructs and interprets this judicial or forensic aspect of early modern visual culture at the center of a political, religious, and scientific triangle. Finally, the book explores the artists' skeptical reflection on the problematic relationship of painting and sculpture to the art of truth.
Author : Joan Sureda
Release : 2008-11
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis The Golden Age of Spain by : Joan Sureda
Download or read book The Golden Age of Spain written by Joan Sureda. This book was released on 2008-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book covers the historical, literary, and artistic grandeur of Spain during its Golden Age (1492-1659), a period marked by conquest and Catholicism, austere classical architecture and the exuberance of the Baroque, the writings of Cervantes, the paintings of Zurbaran, Murillo, and El Greco, and culminating in a blaze of glory with the paintings of Diego Velazquez." "In this volume, Joan Sureck, the renowned Catalan art historian and museum director, places the painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Golden Age in a cultural, historical, and aesthetic context and sheds new light on some of the most celebrated works of the period. This is the first book in English to explore Golden Age paintings alongside architecture and sculpture to give a complete picture of the sumptuousness of the era. All of the artworks were specially photographed for this tribute."--BOOK JACKET.
