The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600-1700

by Xavier Bray

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This text reappraises an art form crucial to the development of Spanish art. In 16th and 17th-century Spain, sculptors worked in a unique relationship with painters, combining their skills to depict, with astonishing realism, the great religious themes.

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This exhibition was as eloquent and overpowering as any which we shall ever see - and a lot of the pieces were displayed even more powerfully than they are in their home locations in Spain. The catalogue does not only illustrate them all perfectly, but also writes about them intelligently and sympathetically. (

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Free pamphlet to accompany the exhibition. Basic information, no illustrations.

FemmeSavante | Feb 27, 2010 |

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This text reappraises an art form crucial to the development of Spanish art. In 16th and 17th-century Spain, sculptors worked in a unique relationship with painters, combining their skills to depict, with astonishing realism, the great religious themes.

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