LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[S. Jerome]El Greco[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
[The Catholic Kings at Prayer] School of Castile, XV Century[18]
From a photograph by J. Laurent & Co., Madrid.
[S. Ursula]Spanish School, XV Century[31]
[The Apparition of the Virgin to Bernardine Monks]? Pedro Berruguete[37]
[S. Stephen Conducted To Martyrdom]Juan de Juanes[44]
From a photograph by J. Laurent & Co., Madrid.
[Descent From the Cross]Pedro Campaña[51]
From a photograph by Anderson, Rome.
[Presentation of Jesus in the Temple]Luis Morales[62]
From a photograph by J. Laurent & Co., Madrid.
[The Crucifixion]El Greco[70]
[San Mauricio and his Theban Legion]El Greco[75]
[The Funeral of Count Orgaz]El Greco[76]
[Baptism of Christ]El Greco[81]
[Virgin and Saints]El Greco[85]
[Philip IV, Old]Velasquez[92]
[Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV]Velasquez[96]
[An Actor, Called “don Juan De Austria”]Velasquez[100]
[Las Hilanderas (The Weavers)]Velasquez[109]
[Las Meniñas (the Maids of Honor)]Velasquez[114]
[Doña Mariana de Austria]Velasquez[119]
[Doña Mariana de Austria]Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo[122]
[The Fountain of the Tritons]Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo[127]
[Charles II]Carreño[132]
From a photograph by Anderson, Rome.
[Hermit Saint]Ribera[141]
[Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
Moses Striking the Rock]		Murillo[150]
[SS. Justa and Rufina]Murillo[155]
[Apotheosis of S. Thomas Aquinas]Francisco de Zurbarán[163]
From a photograph by Anderson, Rome.
[Miracle of S. Hugo]Francisco de Zurbarán[166]
From a photograph by Anderson, Rome.
[Charles IV and the Royal Family]Goya[171]
[Maia, Nude]Goya[174]
[Queen Maria Luisa on Horseback]Goya[183]
[The Fates]Goya[184]
[Scene of May 3, 1808]Goya[189]
[In the Balcony]Goya[190]

THE STORY
OF SPANISH PAINTING

CHAPTER I
THE STORY OF THE NATION

IN 1492 the Catholic Sovereigns, Ferdinand and Isabella, entered Granada in triumph. The last stronghold of Moorish dominion, undermined by the dissensions of Islam, fell before the united Christian kingdoms of Léon, Castile and Aragón. Spain became a united country and, in virtue of her protracted struggle of nearly eight hundred years against the infidel, stood forth as the acknowledged and self-conscious Champion of Catholicism. In the same year Columbus, under the patronage of the Catholic Sovereigns discovered the New World. This date, therefore, presents an epoch that completes the past and forms the starting point of a new era. Intimately associated with the subsequent national development and decline is the story of Spanish painting, but it owes most of its peculiar characteristics to the conditions that preceded the country’s complete union.