This volume offers a reappraisal of the art and thought of Vicente Carducho, for too long overshadowed in art history by Diego Velazquez, his younger artistic rival at the Spanish court. A wide-ranging series of essays consider this treatise and its illustrations in terms of the international literary and artistic cultural context of its time, providing almost ... Read morethe only in-depth analysis of the achievements of the artist in the English language.
Peter Cherry, Trinity College Dublin In the first full-length and in-depth study of Vicente Carducho's Dialogos de la pintura in any language for more than thirty years, the fourteen contributors provide a comprehensive and at times scintillating reading of Carducho's work in all of its multiple facets. This book will be welcomed by all of those interested in art and literature in Baroque Spain, and it is a timely addition to the growing interest in Vicente Carducho.
Trevor J. Dadson FBA, Queen Mary University of London This volume offers a reappraisal of the art and thought of Vicente Carducho, for too long overshadowed in art history by Diego Velazquez, his younger artistic rival at the Spanish court. A wide-ranging series of essays consider this treatise and its illustrations in terms of the international literary and artistic cultural context of its time, providing almost the only in-depth analysis of the achievements of the artist in the English language.
Peter Cherry, Trinity College Dublin In the first full-length and in-depth study of Vicente Carducho s Dialogos de la pintura in any language for more than thirty years, the fourteen contributors provide a comprehensive and at times scintillating reading of Carducho s work in all of its multiple facets. This book will be welcomed by all of those interested in art and literature in Baroque Spain, and it is a timely addition to the growing interest in Vicente Carducho.
Trevor J. Dadson FBA, Queen Mary University of London Show Less