Visionary Experience in the Golden Age of Spanish Art

by Stoichita, Victor I.

• ISBN13: 9780948462757
• ISBN10: 0948462752
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Reaktion Books

Summary

Victor Stoichita shows how Spanish painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries attempted to deal with mystic visions in their art. Artists studied include Velazquez, Zurburan and E1 Greco. This book will appeal to anyone interested in how art responds to ideological pressures.

Author Biography

Victor I. Stoichita is Professor of the History of Art at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is author of A Short History of the Shadow (Reaktion, 1997) and co-author of Goya (Reaktion, 1999).

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(4)
Framing the Beyond: The Quest for a Definition	11	(16)
Vision and Meta-language	27	(18)
Visions and Paintings	45	(33)
The Distant View	78	(25)
The Making of a Painting	103	(18)
Representations of the Mystical Eros	121	(41)
The Seeing Body	162	(36)
By Way of a Conclusion	198	(2)
References	200	(12)
Bibliography	212	(9)
List of Illustrations	221