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Crime and illusion : the art of truth in the Spanish Golden Age /

According to an old historiographic tradition, the Spanish Golden Age placed the imitation of nature at the service of religion: its radical naturalism responded to the deep faith of that culture and moment. Crime and illusion argues the opposite. It defends the thesis that the fundamental problem a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pereda, Felipe, 1968- (Author)
Other Authors: Lopez-Morillas, Consuelo (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Turnhout, Belgium : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2018]
Series:Harvey Miller studies in Baroque art.
Subjects:
Art, Spanish > 17th century.
Art and religion > Spain > History > 17th century.
Art and religion.
Art, Spanish.
Spain.
1600-1699
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the art of believing
  • HIC EST
  • The art of evidence
  • The art of falsehood
  • "False witness" : testimony as deceit, deceit as fiction
  • Veronica : painting as figure, image as vestige
  • The return of Nicodemus
  • Blood and water : the art of willing to believe
  • Afterword.