BAROQUE SEVILLE/ SACRED ART IN A CENTURY OF CRISIS

Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural d isasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this frenzy of religious artistic and architectural activity and the lastin g effects it had on the city and its citizens. Amanda Wunder investigates the great public projects of sacred artwork that were orig inally conceived as medios divinos -- divine solutions to the problems that plagued Seville. These commissions included new polychro med wood...[Read more]