Routledge Italian Culture's Influence on Sevillian Golden Age Painting

This scholarly volume examines the profound cultural exchange between Italy and Spain during the seventeenth century, tracing how Spanish collectors' passion for Italian painting shaped the development of Spanish artistic practice. The book investigates the Sevillian school painters-Francisco Pacheco, Diego Velazquez, Alonso Cano and Bartolome Esteban Murillo-and their creative responses to Italian masterworks. Through detailed analysis and numerous historical examples, the study demonstrates how works and copies by Renaissance and Baroque masters including Michelangelo and Caravaggio circulated throughout Andalusia, fundamentally influencing local artistic production. Published by Routledge as part of the Visual Culture in Early Modernity series, this volume employs innovative collecting methodology to reveal the mechanisms of artistic influence and cultural transmission that defined this transformative period in Spanish art history.