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The sacred made real : Spanish painting and sculpture, 1600-1700 / [edited by] Xavier Bray ; with Alfonso Rodríguez G. de Ceballos, Daphne Barbour and Judy Ozone ; and contributions by Maria Fernanda Morón de Castro [and others].

London : National Gallery, 2009.

208 pages : color illustrations, map ; 31 cm

This text reappraises an art form crucial to the development of Spanish art. In 16th and 17th-century Spain, sculptors worked in a unique relationship with painters, combining their skills to depict, with astonishing realism, the great religious themes.

Sculpture, Spanish -- 17th century -- Exhibitions.

Painting, Spanish -- 17th century -- Exhibitions.

Christian art and symbolism -- Spain -- Modern period, 1500- -- Exhibitions.

Exhibition catalogs.

Bray, Xavier.

National Gallery (Great Britain)

Published to accompany the exhibition at the National Gallery, London, 21 October 2009-24 January 2010 and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 28 February-31 May 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The sacred made real: Spanish painting and sculpture 1600-1700 / Xavier Bray -- The art of devotion: seventeenth-century Spanish painting and sculpture in its religious context / Alfonso Rodríquez G. de Ceballos -- The making of a seventeenth-century Spanish polychrome sculpture / Daphne Barbour and Judy Ozone -- Catalogue / introductions by Xavier Bray. The art of painting sculpture: the quest for reality ; The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception ; A true likeness: portraits ; The Passion of Christ ; Saint Francis in meditation ; The 'Spanish paragone': Saint Serapion ; Francisco Pacheco's dispute with Juan Martínez Montañés -- Biographies of the artists.

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