Test 2 Lecture October 15

Question 1

what is a determining factor of painting

Answer 1

Patronage

Question 2

Painting at the Court of Phillip II: a turning point

Answer 2

Court from Toledo to Madrid. Opportunities for artists

El Escorial, the building/monument most closely associated with Phillip II.

Influence of Italian painters introduced to Spain through the Escorial, specially for the Basilica’s decoration

Strong Catholic tradition

Painting collection of Flemish artists

Patron of Titian

Question 3

explain Court portraiture

Answer 3

Court portraiture (from Coello to Goya). One of the most essential genre of court art of all ages

To please the sitter

A visual testimony of monarchic power and dynastic lineage

Alonso Sánchez Coello (Phillip II)

Diego de Velázquez (Philip IV)

Question 4

What can we see about explain Religious Painting

Answer 4

A Counter-Reformation consequence.

Revival of interest in the depiction of saints, and a new concern that images accord with the accepted iconography

Strong Catholic tradition of the Spanish kingdom

Iconography of the Inmaculada became increasingly familiar in Seventeenth century Spain

Alonso Sánchez Coello

El Greco

Diego de Velázquez

Question 5

Other topics: the interest in Mythology explain El Greco

Answer 5

Against belief of Habsburg Spain as religious space for painters
El Greco as a humanist painter
El Greco and the development his own style

Question 6

Other topics: the interest in Mythology explain Diego de Velázquez

Answer 6

Fable of Arachne

Foreground scene (a scene within a scene)- other pieces
Weaving as a craft vs weaving as “high” art

From substance to form through art
His own work: not a manual laborer, then…