Art and Architecture of Spain

Download or read book Art and Architecture of Spain written by Xavier Barral i Altet and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three millennia of Spain's masterworks and major artistic personalities are illustrated in crisp, new color photography for this extraordinary and unprecedented survey. Fourteen original essays, each by a prominent specialist, cover the following topics: Prehistory and First Contacts with Mediterranean Antiquity; Roman Art and Architecture in Spain; From Antiquity to the Middle Ages, Christianization, and the Visigothic World; Preromanesque and Romanesque Art; Gothic Spain; The Presence of Islam and Arab Art; The Art of the Renaissance; The Baroque; The Art of Colonial Spanish America; Francisco Goya; The Nineteenth Century; Spanish Art from 1900 to 1939; Pablo Picasso; and Contemporary Art, Architecture, and Design. Each chapter includes illustrated mini-essays highlighting subjects of special interest: for example, recent discoveries of prehistoric art; a stunning illuminated Apocalypse made in the year 1078; and the twentieth-century Catalan master architect Antoni Gaudi.