TY  - BOOK
AU  - Acker, Thomas S.
TI  - The Baroque Vortex: : velázquez, calderón and gracián under philip iv
SN  - 082042367
U1  - 700.94609032 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - P. Lang
KW  - Arts, Baroque--spain
N1  - Biblio
N2  - If we look at the plays of Pedro Calderon de la Barca and the paintings of Diego Velazquez, the years 1635 to 1680 arguably mark the creative apex of Spain's "Golden Age." In subtle portraiture and court plays, classical imagery combined with Church orthodoxy connect antiquity's glories to Spain's Habsburg rule. The works of Baltasar Gracian, his allegorical Criticon (1651) and his prescriptive Agudeza y arte de ingenio (1648), offered other examples, and, in the case of the latter, explained this imagery. In these works, Gracian shares many of the same iconographic resources with Calderon and Velazquez. Commonalties in their historical, mythological, and religious subjects reveal the united and vigorous facade that Spain attempted to project through her arts
ER  -