Art in Spain and the Hispanic World: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Brown

440 pages, paperback, 242 x 168 mm, 160 colour illustrations
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ISBN: 978 1 907372 00 1

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Edited by Sarah Schroth

Over the course of the last forty years art historian Jonathan Brown has done more than anyone to reform our approach to the art of the Hispanic world between the age of El Greco and Velazquez and that of Goya.

This volume of contributions to the symposium in his honour in 2008 - testifying to the character and range of his influence - includes 19 essay by distinguished scholars on such subjects as El Greco's portraits, Ribera's 'Beggar Philosophers', Velàzquez and the imperial court in Vienna, Goya's 'Red Boy' as a rival to Gainsborough's 'Blue Boy', Picasso's 'Dark Mirror', the patronage of Italian Renaissance tombs in Spain, portraits for trade in Mexico in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the historiography of colonial art in Latin America. The instruction, by Jonathan Brown's long-standing and no less distinguished collaborator John H. Elliott, explores the ways in which our understanding of Spain's heritage has benefited from the interaction of historians and art historians.