Art and ritual in Golden-Age Spain
Subtitle: Sevillian confraternities and the processional sculpture of Holy Week
By: Susan Verdi Webster.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Sculpture, Spanish -- Spain -- Seville; Polychromy -- Spain -- Seville; Holy Week -- Spain -- Seville; Processions, Religious -- Catholic Church -- Spain -- Seville; Confraternities -- Spain -- Seville
Description: 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 wide 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and index.