Sunday, July 10, 2016

Spanish Painting of the 17th century at the Prado

Matías Jimeno
Landscape with Bear Hunt
ca. 1639-59
Prado

Matías Jimeno
Landscape with palace and watch tower
17th century
Prado

Anonyumous Spanish painter
Palace of Aranjuez
ca. 1636
Prado

Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo
Calle de la Reina at the Palace of Aranjuez
17th century
Prado

Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo
Reservoir at Buen Retiro Palace
1657
Prado

Vicente Carducho
Santiago at the Battle of Clavijo
1605
Prado

"It is no more necessary to prove that painting is an art than it is to show that the sun has light. In addition to its own greatness, there is no liberal art that does not need it in order to express itself in terms of lines, circles, and figures. This can be seen in Philosophy, in the Meno of Plato and the problems of Aristotle, and in grammar, perspective, rhetoric, geography, arithmetic, astrology, anatomy, fortification, architecture, and military art, and even in the philosophy of physical combat."  

- from Dialogues on Painting by Vicente Carducho (Madrid, 1633) translated by Jonathan Brown in Italian & Spanish Art, 1600-1750, Sources and Documents (Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 1999)

Vicente Carducho
Martyrdom of three Carthusians at London
ca. 1626-32
Prado

Eugenio Cajés
Abduction of Ganymede
1604
Prado

Eugenio Cajés
Leda and the Swan
1604
Prado

Antonio del Castillo
Joseph with his Brothers
ca. 1655-60
Prado

Antonio del Castillo
Joseph sold by his Brothers
ca. 1655-60
Prado

Antonio del Castillo
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
ca. 1655-60
Prado

Juan Antonio Escalante
Reapers in the Promised Land
1668
Prado

Juan Antonio Escalante
Prudent Abigail
1667
Prado