Spanish art has been an important contributor to Western art and Spain has produced many famous and influential artists including Velázquez, Goya and Picasso. Spanish art was particularly influenced by France and Italy during the Baroque and Neoclassical periods, but Spanish art has often had very distinctive characteristics, partly explained by the Moorish heritage in Spain (especially in Andalusia), and through the political and cultural climate in Spain during the Counter-Reformation and the subsequent eclipse of Spanish power under the Bourbon dynasty.
The prehistoric art of Spain had many important periods-it was one of the main centres of European Upper Paleolithic art and the rock art of the Spanish Levant in the subsequent periods. In the Iron Age large parts of Spain were a centre for Celtic art, and Iberian sculpture has a distinct style, partly influenced by coastal Greek settlements. Spain was conquered by the Romans by 200 BC and Rome was rather smoothly replaced by the Germanic Visigoths in the 5th century AD, who soon Christianized. The relatively few remains of Visigothic art and architecture show an attractive and distinct version of wider European trends. With the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in the 8th century there was a notable Moorish presence in art specially in Southern Iberia. Over the following centuries the wealthy courts of Al-Andalus produced many works of exceptional quality, culminating in the Alhambra in Granada, right at the end of Muslim Spain.
Meanwhile, the parts of Spain remaining Christian, or that were re-conquered, were prominent in Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque art. Late Gothic Spanish art flourished under the unified monarchy in the Isabelline Gothic and Plateresque styles, and the already strong traditions in painting and sculpture began to benefit from the influence of imported Italian artists. The enormous wealth that followed the flood of American gold saw lavish spending on the arts in Spain, much of it directed at religious art in the Counter-Reformation.
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vignette|L'Art de la peinture (vers 1666) par Vermeer. La peinture est une forme artistique dont les diverses techniques consistent à appliquer manuellement ou mécaniquement, sur une surface, des couleurs sous forme de pigments mélangés à un liant ou un diluant. Les artistes peintres s'expriment sur des supports tels que la toile, le papier, le bois, etc. Ouvrage de représentation ou d'invention, la peinture peut être naturaliste et figurative, ou abstraite. Elle peut avoir un contenu narratif, descriptif, symbolique, spirituel, ou philosophique.
Spanish architecture refers to architecture in any area of what is now Spain, and by worldwide. The term includes buildings which were constructed within the current borders of Spain prior to its existence as a nation, when the land was called Iberia, Hispania, or was divided between several Christian and Muslim kingdoms. Spanish architecture demonstrates great historical and geographical diversity, depending on the historical period.
Sebastiano Luciani (vers 1485 à Venise - à Rome) fut appelé à Rome Sebastiano Viniziano, puis Sebastiano del Piombo. Peintre italien de la Haute Renaissance et des premières périodes maniéristes, célèbre comme le seul artiste majeur de l'époque à combiner la coloration de l'école vénitienne dans laquelle il a été formé avec les formes monumentales de l'école romaine. Il appartient à la fois à l'école de peinture de sa ville natale, Venise, où il a apporté des contributions importantes avant son départ pour Rome en 1511, et à celle de Rome, où il est resté toute sa vie, et dont il a profondément adopté le style.