SPANISH PAINTING

Rich in illustrations and fascinating texts, this overview takes a thematic and chronological approach to the era and its later influences. Opening with Spains emergence as a European power, it explores how developments such as the construction of El Escorial ushered in a new era for painting, how the cities of Madrid, Toledo, and Seville developed as centers of intellectual, political, and artistic activity, and how the Baroque period gave way to the Rococo after the collapse of the Habsburg empire.