The Spanish Portrait FROM EL GRECO TO PICASSO is an unprecedented survey of Spanish portrait painting and the development of this genre in Spanish art from the late fifteenth century to the early decades of the twentieth. Drawing on the collections of the Museo del Prado and other major international collections, it is the first book to cover more than 5oo years of Spanish art from the viewpoint of the portrait. It features a selection of eighty-seven works and includes all the leading names in this field, including El Greco, Ribera,Murillo, Velazquez, Zurbaran, Goya, Miro and Picasso. All previous studies of this subject have focused on narrower timescales and been less ambitious in scope. ...

The Varied Fortunes of the Portrait in Spain

  Javier Portus

1 The Origin of Portrait Painting in Spain

FROM THE ABSENCE OF SPECIALISTS TO THE LARGE WORKSHOP

Miguel Falomir

2 Court Portraits in the Spanish Monarchy (1530-166o)

Leticia Ruiz Gomez

3 The Portraits of E1 Greco

Jose Alvarez Lopera

4 Portrait and Reality: Ribalta, Zurbaran, Ribera

Gabriete Finaldi

5 Velazquez and the Baroque Portrait

Alfonso E. Perez Sanchez

6 Goya, a Free 'Disciple' of Velazquez

Manuela B. Mena Marques

7 The Spanish Portrait in the Eighteenth Century

Nigel Glendinning

8 The Spanish Portrait in the Nineteenth Century

THE TRIUMPH OF A GENRE

Jose Luis Diez

9 The Spanish Portrait from Zuloaga to Picasso

Javier Bar6n

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