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‘Spain & Portugal.

Two fundamental and ostensibly opposed streams permeate Spanish art & literature — ecstatic mysticism and* sober rationalism — and it is those peculiar qualities that give Spanish and its special character and at the same time separate it from the art of the rest of Europe. These qualities are essentially Gothic** in spirit, and the Iberian peninsula is remarkable for the tenacity with which these Gothic ideas were retained throughout the period and for the relatively small influence that Renaissance humanist ideas ever had there. At the beginning of the 17th century, still-life paintings by Sánchez Cotán, with strong realism and harsh, mysterious lighting, illustrate admirably these contrasts….’

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cf VIII: [[Redbook8:314][19910307:1718]{Gothic Art}[7th March 1991],] 314ff

(- [[Redbook8:350][19910315:1000tt][Gothic Art (3) [continued (22):]] European art in the 15^th century [ce] [continued (9)][15th March 1991],] 350)

*** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 25: 354]

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