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Baroque Sculpture [continued (14)]}[8th May 1991]

[Redbook9:302][19910508:0903n]{Baroque Sculpture [continued (14)]}[8th May 1991]


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‘Spain. Spanish sculpture of the 17th & 18th centuries [ce] exhibits a greater continuity with the late Gothic and the Counter-Reformation than does the painting; and the demands for realism and an emotional stimulus led to sculpture with glass eyes, human hair, & even real fabric costumes. Italian Renaissance sculpture had made a very limited impact in Spain, and with few exceptions this was in court ambience only, while Spanish Baroque sculpture is almost entirely religious and of a fundamentally popular nature.

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**– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 27:] 101

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