Spanish Painting

We come now to the reign of the son of Charles V, Philip II, a man whose memory has had to endure much criticism, but to whom, from the point of view of art, his country owes no...

To follow Goya throughout the vicissitudes of his long life is not a matter of difficulty. The man to whom modern Spanish art owes its being was born in the little village of Fu...

The picture _Las Lanzas_ (“The Lances”); the equestrian portraits of kings, princes and others, in which these personages appear dressed in hunting costume; those of the buffoon...

PLATE El Greco (Domenico Theotocopuli) _La Gloria de Felipe II (The “Glory” of Philip II)_ III Francisco de Ribalta _San Pedro (Saint Peter)_ VII Don Diego Rodriguez de Silva y...

Spanish painting was completely modernized during the last years of the nineteenth century. Three great international events took place during that period--the three exhibitions...