Excellent commentary and a book full of stamps of Spanish Painting (El Greco, Goya, Velazquez and others) art, to accompany the detailed historical facts. Stamps include: Lion of Arlanza (Castilian), St. Michael Triumphant (Valencian), The Mssion of the Apostles (Valencian), View of Toledo (El Greco), Cardinal Don Gernando Nino de Guevara (El Greco), The Adoration of the Shepherds (El Greco), Portrait of a Man (El Greco), The Young Virgin (Zurbaran), Philip IV of Spain (Velazquez), Christ and the Pilgrims of Emmaus (Velazquez), Infanta Maria Teresa (Mazo), Infanta Maria Teresa (Velazquez), The Holy Family with St. Catherine (Ribera), Don Andres de Andrade y la Col (Murillo), Virgin and Child (Murillo), Don Maunel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga (Goya), Don Sebastian Martinez (Goya), Don Bernardo de Yriarte (Goya), Dona Narcisa Baranana de Goicoechea (Goya), Majas on a Balcony (Goya), Don Tiburcio Perez (Goya), The Bull Fight (Goya), A City on a Rock (Goya), Gertrude Stein (PIcasso). Get to know Spanish Art in one book! You surely will from this 'arts-craft book' from the 50tys when people would learn art by putting the right stamp in the proper place corelating to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's commentary
Binding: Paperback Label: Book-of-the-Month Club Manufacturer: Book-of-the-Month Club Publication Date: 1951 Publisher: Book-of-the-Month Club Studio: Book-of-the-Month Club |