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Exhibition catalogue. First paperback edition. 280x230mm 208 pages. Illustrated in duotone, some colour. Paperback. Fine. This elegantly designed, fully illustrated volume presents exquisite drawings by Spanish artists over the course of two centuries, featuring works by Ribera, Murillo and Goya from public and private collections in the New York area. Published to accompany a major exhibition at The Frick Collection in New York, this book presents the character, range and depth of the Spanish tradition of drawing from the early 17th to the early 19th century. These extraordinary works share a distinctiveness of technique, subject and mood that sets them apart from Italianate examples produced on the Peninsula in the same period-in other words, they represent a specifically 'Spanish manner'. Although Italian Renaissance principles of figure drawing and perspective were practiced by Spanish draftsmen, the greatest of them also employed techniques of dazzling idiosyncrasy: lines dart and dash freely over the paper as if the hand of the artist could not be restrained, and energetic splotches of ink wash enrich forms. Many of the themes favoured by these artists-fantastic creatures, murderers and martyrdoms, and unusual treatmants of the human body-also distinguish these works. We are specialists in Catalogues: Exhibitions, Auctions, Collections, etc., with a picture of the cover available on request. All items are as described and dispatched within 36 hours in a secure package. We are professional booksellers with over 32 years experience, you may order with confidence.
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Very Good. Book 208 pages. Softcover exhibition catalogue bound in illustrated stiff paper French fold covers. Lower right front cover is bumped, but otherwise the binding is tight and solid, with an uncreased spine and clean interior free of markings. Scholarly texts in English, well researched and indexed. Illustrated with beautifully full color reproductions of works that were presented in the exhibition for which this was published, presented in New York from October 5, 2010-January 9, 2011.
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New (in shrink wrap) Sepia illustrated wraps, 208pp, numerous illustrations. Spanish draftsmen of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries created works of dazzling beauty and inventiveness. Though often well versed in the traditions of Italy and Flanders, artists on the Iberian Peninsula developed their own signature techniques and departed from academic conventions of representing the human figure. They explored a wide range of subject matter and motifs, from saints and biblical scenes infused with Counter-Reformation ideology to depictions of martyrdoms, torture, and otherworldly creatures. This original, visionary, and fantastic aspect is a defining hallmark of the "Spanish manner.".
