Visionary Experience In The Golden Age Of Spanish Art Victor I Stoichita Reaktion Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts General

In This Original And Lucid Account Of How Spanish Painters The Sixteenth Seventeenth Centuries Dealt With Mystic Visions Their Art They Attempted To \ Represent Unrepresentable\ Victor Stoichita Aims Establish A Theory Visionary Imagery Western General One For Counter-Reformation Particular He Reveals Spirituality Was Characterised By Rediscovery Role Imagination Exercise Faith Had Important Consequences Such As Velazquez Zurbaran El Greco Leading Development Ingenious Solutions Visual Depictions Mystical Experience Crystallize Into An Overtly Meditative Didactic Pictorial Language That Painting Is Both Cerebral Passionate Due Historical Forces Which Shaped It Stoichita\ S Will Be Crucial Interest Not Just Scholars But Anyone Interested Responds Ideological Pressures Σελίδες: 224