The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600-1700

London: National Gallery, 2009. Hardcover. VG (Boards are lightly edgeworn; interior is clean; binding is solid.)/VG (DJ has light edgewear and light scuffing and smudging.). Gray boards with color illustrated dust jacket, gray spine with black and brown lettering; 208 pp, profusely illustrated throughout in color. Published to accompany the exhibition at the National Gallery, London, 21 October 2009-24 January 2010 and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 28 February-31 May 2010. This text reappraises an art form crucial to the development of Spanish art. In 16th and 17th-century Spain, sculptors worked in a unique relationship with painters, combining their skills to depict, with astonishing realism, the great religious themes. Contents include: The sacred made real: Spanish painting and sculpture 1600-1700 / Xavier Bray -- The art of devotion: seventeenth-century Spanish painting and sculpture in its religious context / Alfonso Rodríquez G. de Ceballos -- The making of a seventeenth-century Spanish polychrome sculpture / Daphne Barbour and Judy Ozone -- Catalogue / introductions by Xavier Bray. The art of painting sculpture: the quest for reality ; The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception ; A true likeness: portraits ; The Passion of Christ ; Saint Francis in meditation ; The 'Spanish paragone': Saint Serapion ; Francisco Pacheco's dispute with Juan Martínez Montañés -- Biographies of the artists.