Top Results for Spanish Baroque

Luis de Góngora was a significant Spanish poet of the Baroque period. His distinctive style, known as culteranismo, emphasized intricate imagery and dense allusions drawing from classical mythology and the Bible. This ornate approach influenced subsequent poetry in Spain and beyond. He is primarily...

Francisco de Quevedo was a prominent Spanish poet during the Baroque period. His work, characterized by conceptismo – a dense, intellectual style – offered biting social satire and explored complex philosophical ideas. He is notable for his contributions to Golden Age literature and remains studied...

Lope de Vega was a prolific Spanish writer active during the Baroque period. He significantly influenced dramatic literature with his *comedia nueva*, a revitalized form of Spanish theatre. His extensive body of work includes plays, sonnets, and narrative poetry. Primarily writing for public theater...

Francisco Goya’s Los Caprichos is a series of eighty aquatint etchings produced in Spain during 1799. These works employ fantastical and satirical imagery to challenge societal norms including religious institutions and human behavior. The prints, primarily focused on caricature, offer a critical co...

Francisco de Quevedo’s *El Buscón* offers a biting critique of Spanish society through the story of Pablos, a young man attempting to gain status via deceit and trickery. Published in 1626, this baroque novel exemplifies the picaresque genre with its unflinching portrayal of corruption and social cl...

The Immaculate Conception in Seville Cathedral is a large religious canvas by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, painted during the later seventeenth century. It presents the Virgin Mary in white and blue, elevated on clouds and surrounded by angels, using the celestial setting and youthful figure type asso...

The Coronation of the Virgin is an oil painting by Diego Velázquez, generally dated to the early 1640s and now held by the Museo del Prado in Madrid. It presents the Virgin Mary being crowned by God the Father and Christ, with the Holy Spirit appearing above as a dove, creating a compact image of th...

The Basilica of Saint Lawrence is a Catholic church located in Asheville, North Carolina. Completed in 1909, the structure was designed by the Spanish architect Rafael Guastavino, who is renowned for his development of the cohesive tile vaulting system. The building is a characteristic example of Sp...

Diego Velazquez painted The Adoration of the Magi in 1619 during his early career in Seville; the oil-on-canvas work is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. It depicts the infant Jesus receiving the Magi in a closely grouped, naturalistically observed scene rather than an expansive royal procession...

El diablo cojuelo is a satirical fantasy novel by Spanish dramatist Luis Vélez de Guevara, first published in 1641. Its episodic story follows the student Don Cleofás, who frees a limping devil imprisoned by a magician; the devil repays him by carrying him over Madrid and exposing the private lives...

Devotional altarpiece by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo depicting the Virgin of the Rosary, painted for a Seville church in the mid-17th century.

Juan Cabanilles was a Spanish Baroque organist and composer who spent most of his career at Valencia Cathedral. His surviving keyboard works include tientos, versos, diferencias, and other forms associated with seventeenth-century Iberian organ practice. The music frequently explores contrapuntal wr...

Francisco Correa de Arauxo was a Spanish organist and composer associated with the early Baroque period. His principal publication, Facultad organica, appeared in 1626 and combines a substantial collection of organ pieces with written guidance on keyboard technique and performance. The volume is an...

El viaje entretenido is a Spanish miscellany published in Madrid in 1603 by Agustín de Rojas Villandrando, an actor and playwright associated with the theatre of the Spanish Golden Age. The work is arranged in four books of dialogue among Rojas and three fellow theatre workers and contains forty loa...

Pablo Bruna was a Spanish organist and composer of the seventeenth century who became known as El ciego de Daroca, or the blind man of Daroca, after losing his sight during childhood. He served as organist of the collegiate church of Santa María in his home city of Daroca from 1631 until his death i...

El castigo de la miseria is a short work by María de Zayas, first published in 1637 in Novelas amorosas y ejemplares. The story uses comic situations to examine greed and the consequences of excessive attachment to money. It has features associated with the picaresque tradition, including social sat...

La varia fortuna del soldato Píndaro is a Spanish Baroque prose work by Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, published in 1626. It combines features of the picaresque novel and adventure narrative and uses a soldier's life as its framing subject. The work belongs to early modern Spanish literature concern...

Periquillo el de las gallineras is a Spanish picaresque work by Francisco Santos, published in 1668. The book is associated with the Baroque period and adapts the tradition of the rogue-centered narrative by presenting a devout protagonist rather than a conventional morally opportunistic picaro. It...

Los antojos de mejor vista, also cited as Los anteojos, is a Spanish satirical work by Rodrigo Fernández de Ribera. It belongs to the prose tradition associated with the picaresque novel and is connected with the development of Spanish Baroque satire. The work is also regarded as a precursor to Luis...

Tercera parte de Guzmán de Alfarache is Félix Machado da Silva e Castro's 1650 continuation, recasting Guzmán as a penitent pilgrim.