The Earliest Painted Panels of Catalonia (I)
Walter W. S. Cook
the study of Spanish painting we have an excellent illustration retrogressive method art criticism. The evolution during sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is perfectly clear, fully documented, exceedingly well published. Gothic fourteenth fifteenth less well-known to students. Some schools primitives, especially those Aragon, Castellón de la Plana, Valencia, Navarre, Cordova, still await publication, innumerable retables great beauty nagnificence never been photographed, while documents in municipal cathedral archives offer untold possibilities for fruitful investigation. Our knowledge Romanesque period even more limited. remarkable panels atalonia subject adequate, scientific study. Yet these altarontals altar-canopies, dating from twelfth thirteenth centuries, constitute one most interesting early western Europe.2
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