Crime and Illusion: The Art of Truth in the Spanish Golden Age

by Felipe Pereda

According to an old historiographic tradition, the Spanish Golden Age placed the imitation of nature at the service of religion: its radical naturalism responded to the deep faith of that culture and moment. Crime & Illusion argues the opposite. It defends the thesis that the fundamental problem artists of the Golden Age confronted was not imitation but Truth. Moreover a large part, maybe the best part, of Spanish Baroque religious imagery is better...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912554097
• ISBN13: 9781912554096
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Harvey Miller
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.