TY - BOOK ID - 46192125 TI - Crime and ilusion : the art of truth in the spanish Golden Age AU - Pereda, Felipe AU - López-Morillas, Consuelo PY - 2019 VL - 13 SN - 9781912554096 1912554097 PB - London: Harvey Miller, DB - UniCat KW - Art, Spanish KW - Art and religion KW - Art KW - truth KW - philosophy of art KW - anno 1600-1699 KW - Spain KW - Painting [Spanish ] KW - Art [Baroque ] KW - Painting, Spanish KW - Sculpture, Spanish KW - Painting, Baroque KW - Sculpture, Baroque KW - Themes, motives. KW - Art, Spanish - 17th century KW - kunst en godsdienst UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46192125 AB - The book explores the artists’ skeptical reflection on the problematic relationship of painting and sculpture to the art of truth. According to an old historiographic tradition, the Spanish Golden Age placed the imitation of nature at the service of religion: its radical naturalism responded to the deep faith of that culture and moment. Crime & Illusion argues the opposite. It defends the thesis that the fundamental problem artists of the Golden Age confronted was not imitation but Truth. Moreover a large part, maybe the best part, of Spanish Baroque religious imagery is better understood as a complex exercise in addressing the spectators’ doubts. Hovering on the horizon of an emerging empiricism, artists created their images as pieces of evidence, arguments for belief. Crime & Illusion reconstructs and interprets this judicial or forensic aspect of early modern visual culture at the center of a political, religious, and scientific triangle. Finally, the book explores the artists’ skeptical reflection on the problematic relationship of painting and sculpture to the art of truth. ER -