Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World
October 11, 2009-January 3, 2010
Allen Whitehill Clowes Gallery in Wood Pavilion / FREE
This exhibition explores the exaggerated aesthetic and expressive means employed by 17th-century Spanish artists to convey religious experience. The objects chosen for the exhibition were created explicitly to arouse wonder, devotion and identification, resulting in art of enormous power and originality. Sacred Spain includes works of art in all media, including paintings by well-known artists such as El Greco, Velázquez, Zurbarán and Murillo, as well as less well-known masterpieces of polychrome sculpture, liturgical silver, embroidered vestments and illuminated manuscripts. It also includes works from colonial Spanish America and the Philippines.
Take a virtual tour of the exhibition.
The exhibition and free admission are made possible through the generosity of the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation. The exhibition and catalogue are presented with the collaboration of the State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad, SEACEX, which is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and the Ministry of Culture. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Image credit: Francisco Rizi, Spanish, 1608-1685. The Dream of St. Joseph, about 1665, oil on canvas. Anonymous Art Fund. 2006.110
