Art and Culture of the Spanish Golden Age

Session 1: IntroductionARTH 299SPAN 301

Flamenco Dancer

Paella

Running of the Bulls in San Fermin, Pamplona, Spain

Tapas

Spanish Beach

La Dama de Elche, between 5th and 2nd cent. B.C., Museo Arqueológico, Madrid

Greek ruins in Ampurias, Catalonia, Spain

Aqueduct of Segovia, 1st cent. A.D., Segovia, Spain

Roman Theater of Mérida, 18 B.C., Merida, Spain

Visigothic votive crown, 649-72, Madrid, Museo Arqueológico

Interior of the Great Mosque at Córdoba, 8th cent.-9th cent., Córdoba, Spain

Two views of the Alhambra Palace, 13th cent.-14th cent., Granada, Spain

Spain in 1492

The Catholic Kings, Façade of the University of Salamanca, 1520s, Salamanca, Spain

Artist unknown, Christopher Columbus landing on Hispaniola, Spanish engraving, 1728.

Titian, Charles V on Horseback, 1548

Spanish dominions in the times of Charles V

Pierre Perret, Philip II, Religion and the Escorial, engraved frontispiece to Luis Cabrera de Córdoba, Felipe II Rey de España, Madrid, 1619

Juan de Herrera, El Escorial, 1567-1584, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain

Bird’s eye view of the Plaza Mayor, Madrid, Spain

Juan de la Corte, View of the Plaza Mayor of Madrid in 1623, 1630s

Plaza Mayor, Madrid, Municipal building in the southern range

Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Philip III, 1606

Diego Velázquez, Philip IV, 1623-27 Diego Velázquez, The Count-Duke of Olivares on Horseback, 1638

Juan de Jáuregui, Miguel de Cervantes, 1600 Lisbon edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, 1605

Artist unknown, Portrait of Francisco de Quevedo, c. 1625-30

Diego Velázquez, Portrait of Luis de Góngora

Anonymous, Portrait of Lope de Vega, 17th cent. Juan Alfaro, Portrait of

Calderón de la Barca, 17th cent.

El Greco, The Fifth Seal of the Apocalypse, 1608-1614

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Urchin Hunting Fleas, c. 1648

Juan Van der Hamen y León, Still Life,

Jusepe Ribera, Martyrdom of Saint Andrew, 1628

Francisco Zurbarán, The Young Virgin Praying, c. 1632-33

Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas, 1656

Sculpture of Velázquez at the entrance of the Prado Museum

Las Meninas at the Prado Museum

Paper-mache figures in Madrid store’s balcony

Pablo Picasso, Detail from Las Meninas after Velázquez, 1957

Equipo Crónica, Las Meninas, or La Salita, 1970