Pedro de Mena : the Spanish Bernini / Xavier Bray and José Luis Romero Torres.
By: Bray, Xavier [author.]
Contributor(s): Romero Torres, José Luis [author.]
Language: English Publisher: [Luxembourg City, Luxembourg] : [Belgium] : [Spain] : Musée national d'histoire et d'art Luxembourg MNHA ; Hannibal ; Coll & Cortés, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: Revised, enlarged, and redesigned editionDescription: 242 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780993564345; 0993564348Other title: Spanish BerniniSubject(s): Mena, Pedro de, 1628-1688 | Sculpture, Spanish -- 17th century -- History| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-241)
Foreword / Michel Polfer -- Pedro de Mena. The Spanish Bernini / Xavier Bray -- Biography / José Luis Romero Torres -- The Malaga workshop / José Luis Romero Torres -- Pedro de Mena and the illegitimate children of Philip IV : Juan José of Austria and the bishops Fray Alonso de Santo Tomás and Alonso Antonio de San Martín / José Luis Romero Torres -- The legacy of Pedro de Mena / José Luis Romero Torres -- Eight polychrome sculptures by Pedro de Mena photographed by Dominique Provost at the Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art, Luxembourg / José Luis Romero Torres -- Virgin of the immaculate conception / José Luis Romero Torres -- Virgin and child / José Luis Romero Torres -- Infant Saint John the Baptist / José Luis Romero Torres -- Infant Christ of the passion / José Luis Romero Torres -- Ecce Homo & Mater Dolorosa / José Luis Romero Torres -- Saint Francis of Assisi in meditation / José Luis Romero Torres -- Saint Peter of Alcántara / José Luis Romero Torres -- Technique and polychromy / José Luis Romero Torres -- Selective bibliography.
Pedro de Mena y Medrano (1628-1688) is nowadays the most highly regarded master of Spanish Baroque sculpture, on a par with his contemporaries, the great seventeenthcentury painters Velázquez, Zurbarán and Murillo. Mena's contributions to Spanish Baroque sculpture are unsurpassed in both technical skill and expressiveness of his religious subjects. His ability to sculpt the human body was remarkable, and he excelled in creating figures and scenes for contemplation. This first monograph of Pedro de Mena shows a lot of details and remarkable images of his hyper-realistic sculptures, full of Spanish passion. Apart from the article by curator Xavier Bray, it also features important contributions by José Luis Romeo Torres, curator of the monographic exhibition Pedro de Mena, to be held in Málaga in 2019.