Baroque Sculpture [continued (15)]}[8th May 1991]

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‘Gregorio Hernández in sculptures like the “Pietà”* (1617[ce], Museo Nacional de Esculturas, Valladolid, Spain) revealed an emotional realism more Gothic than Baroque (Figure 65)*....

In general the 18th century [ce] saw a sad decline in Spanish sculpture.’

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*See illustration, ibid;**

this does remind me of those

Nazi & particularly Communist

officially-sponsored arts,

in the emphasis on ‘realism’ and

the idealisation not so much

of its ‘form’, but of its

‘content’ – the ‘idealisation’

or formulaisation [sic] of emotions.{↓}

{ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 27:] 100}

** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 27:] 101

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