The Spanish Golden Age
Subtitle: painting and sculpture in the time of Velázquez
By: exhibition curators, Roberto Contini and María López-Fanjul y Díez del Corral ; essays, Manuel Arias, Roberto Contini, Karin Hellwig, Henrik Karge, María López-Fanjul y Díez del Corral
Contributors: Arias Martínez, Manuel, writer of supplementary textual content; Gemäldegalerie (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin); Hypo-Kulturstiftung (Munich, Germany). Kunsthalle
Publisher: Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Hirmer
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9783777425269
Subjects: Spanish Painting; Spanish Sculpture; Exhibitions
Other titles: Painting and sculpture in the time of Velázquez
Description: This book is an introduction to the Spanish Golden Age that took place during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and showcases the diversity of Spanish art from this century in all its rich complexity.
Notes: Maps on endpapers.

Catalog of the exhibitions "El Siglo de Oro: The Age of Velazquez" held at the Gemäldegalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, July 1 - October 30, 2016; "The Spanish Golden Age: Painting and Sculpture in the Time of Velazquez", Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, November 25, 2016 - March 26, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-331).
Table of contents: title: The golden arts in an iron age : the Spanish Siglo de Oro in the history of European art and culture / Henrik Karge; title: Theory and practice : the fine arts in seventeenth century Spain / Karin Hellwig; title: Polyphony and polycentrism : Spanish painting in the seventeenth century / Robert Contini; title: Religious sculpture in Golden Age Spain / Manuel Arias Martínez; title: Spanish baroque drawings and the collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / María López-Fanjul y Díez del Corral; title: Chronology / Sven Jakstat; title: Catalogue. The transition to the Baroque ; The generation of great masters ; The artists of the High Baroque; title: Spanish baroque drawings from the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.