Spain: A History in Art

by Bradley Smith and Bradley Smith

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038505016X
• ISBN13: 9780385050166
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 4.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Marvelous paintings

This is an oversized coffee table book that does exactly as the title indicates. It begins with prehistory 20,00-1000 B.C. with cave paintings and concludes with the cultural renaissance and the "generation of '98." Consequently not much is covered of Spain in the 20th or let alone the 21st century. The text is pretty well written in a highlight USA Today fashion but the true beauty and reason to own this book is the art work dispalyed. Within you will see the works of Velasquez, Goya , Murillo, Miro,Sorolla, Picasso and other less known but almost equally impressive outside of Spain artists works. Interestingly enough Dali is absent. Most of the paintings are currently housed in The Prado, Museo de Bellas Artes, or some other museum in Spain . If the paintings are not in a museum than they are in palaces like the Palacio Real or El Escorial so they are quite rare and old. Besides famous paintings there also sculptures used to explain the history of Spain. Ancient codice are examined usually without any specifics other than saying it is an Archivo de Indias(Indian archives).The whirlwind detailed history lesson also goes through the Moslem and Christian Period, The Catholic Sovereigns, The Exploration of the New World and The House of Bourbon. Many aspects of Spanish history are looked at including literature and architecture. A nice book to look at anytime, good for high school reports and especially beneficial for a students knowledge of art and history.