![]() | Images and Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting 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. Jonathan Brown (1939-2022) was the Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute for Fine Arts at New York University and the author of a number of books, including Velázquez: Painter and Courtier ; Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe ; Painting in Spain , 1500-1700; and In the Shadow of Velázquez: A Life in Art History. |
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