Renaissance to Goya : prints and drawings from Spain
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Renaissance to Goya : prints and drawings from Spain
British Museum Press, 2012
- : hardback
- : paperback
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Exhibition catalogue
"This book is published to accompany the exhibition at the British Museum from 20 September 2012 to 6 January 2013"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-306) and index
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: paperback ISBN 9780714126777
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The great tradition of printmaking and drawing in Spain has rarely been examined, in part because of the misapprehension that Spanish artists did not draw. This spectacular volume of drawings and prints will examine the history of graphic practice in Spain for the first time, providing an overview of more than two hundred years of artistic production. The story begins in the mid sixteenth century with the building of Philip IIs monastery of the Escorial near Madrid, which brought to Spain a large number of foreign artists, such as the Italian Pellegrino Tibaldi and the Flemish printmaker Pedro Perret, whose engravings of the Escorial are among the most remarkable architectural prints of the period. Moving on to the Golden Age or Siglo di Oro a dramatic flourishing of artistic and literary endeavour in Spain during the seventeenth century, and concluding with the Enlightenment, and a remarkable collection of Goya prints, in particular featuring traditionally Spanish subjects such as bullfighting, and works by Goyas contemporaries Lucas, Camaron and the Tiepolo family of Madrid.
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: hardback ISBN 9780714126807
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This spectacular volume of drawings and prints looks at the history of graphic practice in Spain for the first time, providing an overview of more than two hundred years.
The great tradition of printmaking and drawing in Spain has rarely been examined. This spectacular volume of drawings and prints looks at the history of graphic practice in Spain for the first time, providing an overview of more than two hundred years.The British Museum holds one of the best collections of Spanish drawings from the late 16th to the 18th century outside Spain. Featuring a remarkable series of Goya prints, this title complements an exhibition at the Museum from 20 September 2012 to 5 January 2013. The collection was last shown in the 1970s (an incomplete selection) and has never before been catalogued.
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