Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION Painting in Spain or Spanish Painting Patrons and Painters A Changing Spain ONE Painting at the Court of Philip II Portraying the Court of Philip II: Alonso Sanchez The Escorial The Basilica of the Escorial El Greco at the Escorial The Italian Contribution: Luca Cambiasa and Pellegrino Tibaldi TWO The Toledo of El Greco Private Patrons and Religious Commissions El Greco, Humanist Naturalism in Early Seventeenth-century Toledo THREE Ribalta in Valencia and Painting in Seville Seventeenth-century Seville Genre Painting in Seville Religious Painting in Seville FOUR The Habsburg Court: 1598-1655 The Legacy of the Sixteenth Century Velasquez's Early Works a the Court of Philip IV Rubens, Rivalries, and Italy The Buen Retiro Palace The Aesthetic of the Borron FIVE Painting at Court: 1655-1700 Juan Bautista Martinez del Mazo Painting in the Final Years of the Habsburg Monarchy SIX Painting Under The Bourbon Monarchy: 1700-70 Portraiture at the Bourbon Court The Rise of the Lesser Genres The Royal Academy and the Grand Tradition SEVEN Goya's Modernity Goya, Tapestry Painter Los Caprichos Traditions Revisited Restoration and Exile CONCLUSION

About the Author

Janis Tomlinson is Director of University Museums at the University of Delaware. She is the author of numerous articles, exhibition reviews and books among them Francisco Goya y Lucientes, 1746 - 1828 and Goya in the Twilight of Enlightenement.