The Spanish Portrait FROM EL GRECO TO PICASSO is an unprecedented survey of Spanish portrait painting and the development of this genre in Spanish art from the late fifteenth century to the early decades of the twentieth. Drawing on the collections of the Museo del Prado and other major international collections, it is the first book to cover more than 5oo years of Spanish art from the viewpoint of the portrait. It features a selection of eighty-seven works and includes all the leading names in this field, including El Greco, Ribera,Murillo, Velazquez, Zurbaran, Goya, Miro and Picasso. All previous studies of this subject have focused on narrower timescales and been less ambitious in scope. ...
The Varied Fortunes of the Portrait in Spain
Javier Portus
1 The Origin of Portrait Painting in Spain
FROM THE ABSENCE OF SPECIALISTS TO THE LARGE WORKSHOP
Miguel Falomir
2 Court Portraits in the Spanish Monarchy (1530-166o)
Leticia Ruiz Gomez
3 The Portraits of E1 Greco
Jose Alvarez Lopera
4 Portrait and Reality: Ribalta, Zurbaran, Ribera
Gabriete Finaldi
5 Velazquez and the Baroque Portrait
Alfonso E. Perez Sanchez
6 Goya, a Free 'Disciple' of Velazquez
Manuela B. Mena Marques
7 The Spanish Portrait in the Eighteenth Century
Nigel Glendinning
8 The Spanish Portrait in the Nineteenth Century
THE TRIUMPH OF A GENRE
Jose Luis Diez
9 The Spanish Portrait from Zuloaga to Picasso
Javier Bar6n
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