Spanish Still Life in the Golden Age: 1600-1650

Abstract

More and more frequently these days, it is in the context of temporary exhibitions and their accompanying catalogues that the most important contributions to the scholarly literature on an artist, period, or area of interest are made; it is there where we are most likely to find both the richest mines of bibliographical information and the freshest ideas on a given subject. Last year's splendid exhibition of Spanish Still Life in the Golden Age: 1600-1650, which opened at the Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth), was very much a case in point. Its curator, William B. Jordan, Deputy Director of the Kimbell, has given us a comprehensive view of this subject through a selection of paintings that combined appositeness with high artistic quality, and in an excellent introductory essay and impeccably researched catalogue entries, he has produced the most reasoned and informative text on this material to date.

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Nina Ayala Mallory

Nina Ayala Mallory is Professor of Art History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is the author of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Madrid, 1983) and coauthor of Painting in Spain 1650-1700 (Princeton, 1982).