Images and Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting - Brown, Jonathan
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Art historians have often minimized the variety and complexity of seventeenth-century Spanish painting by concentrating on individual artists and their works and by stressing discovery of new information rather than interpretation. As a consequence, the painter emerges in isolation from the forces that shaped his work. Jonathan Brown offers another approach to the subject by relating important Spanish Baroque paintings and painters to their cultural milieu. A critical survey of the historiography of seventeenth-century Spanish painting introduces this two-part collection of essays. Part One…mehr

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Art historians have often minimized the variety and complexity of seventeenth-century Spanish painting by concentrating on individual artists and their works and by stressing discovery of new information rather than interpretation. As a consequence, the painter emerges in isolation from the forces that shaped his work. Jonathan Brown offers another approach to the subject by relating important Spanish Baroque paintings and painters to their cultural milieu. A critical survey of the historiography of seventeenth-century Spanish painting introduces this two-part collection of essays. Part One provides the most detailed study to date of the artistic-literary academy of Francisco Pacheco, and Part Two contains original studies of four major painters and their works: Las Meninas of Velázquez, Zurbarán's decoration of the sacristy at Guadalupe, and the work by Murillo and Valdés Leal for the Brotherhood of Charity, Seville. The essays are unified by the author's intention to show how the artists interacted with and responded to the prevailing social, theological, and historical currents of the time. While this contextual approach is not uncommon in the study of European art, it is newly applied here to restore some of the diversity and substance that Spanish Baroque painting originally possessed.
Autorenporträt
Jonathan Brown has written three books in the Lou Crasher mystery series: The Big Crescendo, 2019; Don't Shoot the Drummer, 2020; and Drums, Guns N Money pub date March 2023. He's written two books of historical fiction, both with favorable Kirkus Reviews. A Boxing Trainer's Journey, a novel based on the life of Angelo Dundee, and Character Is What Counts a novel based on the life of Vince Lombardi. Chloe is his first book with a female protagonist and his first book with Level Best Books. Two more books with female 'bad ass' protagonists are underway and will be published with Level Best. Brown is the first recipient of Mystery Writers of America's Barbara Neely Scholarship 2021. He's one of the founders of Sidecrow Productions, an audiobook production business. In addition to penning stories, Brown has added audiobook narration to his trick bag. For fun, he plays drums, practices martial arts, and messes around with simple carpentry projects. But most of all he enjoys love and laughter with his beautiful wife Sonia.