Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries

This catalogue of Spanish painting in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC is the second volume in the Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. This collection is one of the finest in the western hemisphere and includes important groups of work by El Greco, Goya, Velasquez, Murillo, Valdes Leal and Juan van der Hamen y Leon. The catalogue contains the most comprehensive entries to date on all the Spanish works in the National Gallery of Art; with a biographical outline of the artists; a description of, and often new observations on, the physical condition of each painting; critical discussions of such matters as attribution, chronology, identification of subject matter or sitter, and a summary of previous scholarship.Brown, Jonathan is the author of 'Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries' with ISBN 9780521401074 and ISBN 0521401070.