The Baroque Vortex
Subtitle: Velazquez, Calderon and Gracian Under Philip IV (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures)
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: June 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780820423678
Subjects: Calderon de la Barca, Pedro; Gracian y Morales, Baltasar; Velazquez, Diego; 1599-1660; Arts, Baroque; Arts, Spanish; Criticism and interpretation; Spain; Velazquez, Diego,; Velâazquez, Diego,; Sociology
Description: "If we look at the plays of Pedro Calderon de la Barca and the paintings of Diego Velazquez, the years 1635 to 1680 arguably mark the creative apex of Spain's "Golden Age." In subtle portraiture and court plays, classical imagery combined with Church orthodoxy connect antiquity's glories to Spain's Habsburg rule.

The works of Baltasar Gracian, his allegorical Criticon (1651) and his prescriptive Agudeza y arte de ingenio (1648), offered other examples, and, in the case of the latter, explained this imagery. In these works, Gracian shares many of the same iconographic resources with Calderon and Velazquez. Commonalties in their historical, mythological, and religious subjects reveal the united and vigorous facade that Spain attempted to project through her arts.

The Baroque Vortex compares some of the similarities and differences to be found in the works of these three contemporaries."--BOOK JACKET.