Baroque Seville: sacred art in a century of crisis

Abstract

"Explores the making of seventeenth-century Seville's greatest Baroque monuments. Conceived as a spiritual solution to Seville's problems, these works had a profound real-world effect on the city in crisis. Examines Baroque art as a collaborative process involving not only painters but altarpiece designers, plaster carvers, embroiderers, printmakers, and authors"

Contents

The art of disillusionment : the patronage of Mateo Vázquez de Leca -- The piety of powerful neighbors : the renovation of Santa María la Blanca -- A temporary triumph : the Seville Cathedral's festival for San Fernando -- The nobility of charity : the church and hospital of the Santa Caridad -- The phoenix of Seville : rebuilding the Church of San Salvador.