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Art and architecture of Spain
Historia del arte de España. English.
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"Organized chronologically and spanning some 30,000 years, this volume surveys activity in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, and applied arts, focusing on masterworks and the major a...
"Organized chronologically and spanning some 30,000 years, this volume surveys activity in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, and applied arts, focusing on masterworks and the major artistic personalities of each period." "Illustrated mini-essays in each chapter focus on subjects of special interest, such as recent discoveries of prehistoric art, a stunning illuminated Apocalypse made in the year 1078, and the twentieth-century Catalan master architect Antoni Gaudi."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- edited by Xavier Barral i Altet ; contributions by Javier Arce ... [et al. ; translated by Dominic Currin]
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- English
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- First North American edition
- Boston : Little, Brown, [1998]
- ©1998
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- 575 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 30 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780821224564, 0821224565
- OCLC
- ocm40186667
- "A Bulfinch Press Book."
- "Published simultaneously in Canada by Little, Brown & Company (Canada) Limited"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 564-567) and index.
- Introduction / Xavier Barral i Altet -- Prehistory and First Contacts with Mediterranean Antiquity / Eduardo Ripoll Perello -- Roman Art and Architecture in Spain / Javier Arce -- From Antiquity to the Middle Ages, Christianity and the Visigothic World / Pere de Palol -- Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque Art / Xavier Barral i Altet -- Gothic Spain / Nuria de Dalmases -- The Presence of Islam and Islamic Art / Christian Ewert and Fernando Valdes Fernandez -- The Art of the Renaissance / Fernando Checa -- The Baroque / Joan-Ramon Triado -- The Art of Colonial Spanish America / Joaquin Berchez Gomez and Rafael Lopez Guzman -- Francisco de Goya / Manuela Mena Marques -- The Nineteenth Century: from Neoclassicism to Industrialism / Carlos Reyero -- Spanish Art from 1900 to 1939 / Jaime Brihuega Sierra -- Pablo Picasso / Germain Viatte -- Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design / Pilar Parcerisas and Manuel Borja Villel