The sacred made real
Subtitle: Spanish painting and sculpture, 1600-1700
By: [edited by] Xavier Bray ; with Alfonso Rodríguez G. de Ceballos, Daphne Barbour and Judy Ozone ; and contributions by Maria Fernanda Morón de Castro ... [et al.].
Contributors: National Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher: National Gallery
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781857094220; 9781857094480
Description: This text reappraises an art form crucial to the development of Spanish art. In 16th and 17th-century Spain, sculptors worked in a unique relationship with painters, combining their skills to depict, with astonishing realism, the great religious themes.
Notes: Published to accompany the exhibition at the National Gallery, London, 21 October 2009-24 January 2010 and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 28 February-31 May 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: The sacred made real: Spanish painting and sculpture 1600-1700 / Xavier Bray; title: The art of devotion: seventeenth-century Spanish painting and sculpture in tis religious context / Alfonso Rodríquez G. De Ceballos; title: The making of a seventeenth-century Spanish polychrome sculpture / Daphne Barbour and Judy Ozone; title: Catalogue / introductions by Xavier Bray. The art of painting sculpture: the quest for reality ; The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception ; A true likeness: portraits ; The Passion of Christ ; Saint Francis in meditation ; The 'Spanish paragone': Saint Serapion ; Francisco Pacheco's dispute with Juan Martínez Montañés; title: Biographies of the artists.