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Pedro de Mena : the spanish Bernini
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ISBN: 9780993564345 0993564348 Year: 2019 Publisher: Lichtervelde Veurne Musée national d'histoire et d'art Luxembourg Hannibal Publishing

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Pedro de Mena y Medrano (1628-1688) is nowadays the most highly regarded master of Spanish Baroque sculpture, on a par with his contemporaries, the great seventeenthcentury painters Velázquez, Zurbarán and Murillo. Mena's contributions to Spanish Baroque sculpture are unsurpassed in both technical skill and expressiveness of his religious subjects. His ability to sculpt the human body was remarkable, and he excelled in creating figures and scenes for contemplation. This first monograph of Pedro de Mena shows a lot of details and remarkable images of his hyper-realistic sculptures, full of Spanish passion. Apart from the article by curator Xavier Bray, it also features important contributions by José Luis Romeo Torres, curator of the monographic exhibition Pedro de Mena, to be held in Málaga in 2019.


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Alsono Berruguete : first sculptor of renaissance Spain : [exhibition, Washington, National Gallery of Art, October 13, 2019 - February 17, 2020, Dallas, Meadows Museum, SMU, March 29 - July 26, 2020] / C.D. Dickerson III and Mark McDonald ; with Manuel Arias Martínez, Daphne Barbour, Jonathan Brown...
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ISBN: 9780300248319 841524584X 0300248318 9788415245841 Year: 2019 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press,

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"Alonso Berruguete (c. 1488-1561) revolutionized the arts of Renaissance Spain with a dramatic style of sculpture that reflected the decade or more he had spent in Italy while young. Trained as a painter, he traveled to Italy around 1506, where he interacted with Michelangelo and other leading artists. In 1518, he returned to Spain and was appointed court painter to the new king, Charles I. Eventually, he made his way to Valladolid, where he shifted his focus to sculpture, opening a large workshop that produced breathtaking multistory altarpieces (retablos) decorated with sculptures in painted wood. This handsomely illustrated catalogue is the first in English to treat Berruguete's art and career comprehensively. It follows his career from his beginnings in Castile to his final years in Toledo, where he produced his last great work, the marble tomb of Cardinal Juan de Tavera. Enriching the chronological narrative are discussions of important aspects of Berruguete's life and practice: his complicated relationship with social status and wealth; his activity as a draftsman and use of prints; how he worked with his many assistants to create his wood sculptures; and his legacy as an artist"--

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