Visionary Experience in the Golden Age of

Victor Stoichita shows how Spanish painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries attempted to deal with mystic visions in their art. Artists studied include Velazquez, Zurburan and E1 Greco. This book will appeal to anyone interested in how art responds to ideological pressures.

Victor I. Stoichita is Professor of the History of Art at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is author of A Short History of the Shadow (Reaktion, 1997) and co-author of Goya (Reaktion, 1999).

Introduction

7

(4)

Framing the Beyond: The Quest for a Definition

11

(16)

Vision and Meta-language

27

(18)

Visions and Paintings

45

(33)

The Distant View

78

(25)

The Making of a Painting

103

(18)

Representations of the Mystical Eros

121

(41)

The Seeing Body

162

(36)

By Way of a Conclusion

198

(2)

References

200

(12)

Bibliography

212

(9)

List of Illustrations

221

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Visionary Experience in the Golden Age of Spanish Art

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