Art and Architecture of Spain

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. Fourteen essays, each by a prominent specialist, cover the following topics: Prehistory and First Contacts with Mediterranean Antiquity; Roman Art and Architecture in Spain; From Antiquity to the Middle Ages, Christianity and the Visigothic World; Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque Art; Gothic Spain; The Presence of Islam and Islamic Art; The Art of the Renaissance; The Baroque; The Art of Colonial Spanish America; Francisco de Goya;The Nineteenth Century: from Neoclassicism to Industrialism; Spanish Art from 1900 to 1939; Pablo Picasso; Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design. Also included are a comparative chronology, a glossary of terms, and an extensive bibliography.