Publisher's Synopsis
Three millenia of Spain's masterworks and major artistic personalities are illustrated in crisp , new colour photography for this extraordinary and unprecedented survey. Fourteen original essays, each by a prominent specialist, cover the the following topics: Prehistory and First Contacts with Mediterranean antiquity, Roman Art & Architecture in spain, From Antiquity To The Middle Ages, Christianisation and the Visigothic world, Preromanesque and Romanesque Art, Gothic Spain, The Presence of Islam and Arab Art, The Art Of The Renaissance, The Baroque, The Art Of Colonial America, Francisco Goya, The Nineteenth Century, Spanish Art from 1900 to 1939, Pablo Picasso, and Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design.
Each chapter includes illustrated mini essays highlighting subjects of special interest : for example, recent discoveries of prehistoric art, a stunning Apocalypse made in the year 1078 and the Twentieth Century Catalan master architect Antoni Gaudi.
