The Rack, the Rapier, the Ruff and the Fainting Nun
Nicholas Penny: Manet/Velázquez, 10 July 2003
Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
by Gary Tinterow and Geneviève Lacambre et al.
Yale, 592 pp., £50, March 2003,0 300 09880 4 Show More
by Gary Tinterow and Geneviève Lacambre et al.
Yale, 592 pp., £50, March 2003,
“... A revealing text for understanding the hold that Spanish painting of the 17th century had over the imagination of art-lovers in Britain and France during the first half of the 19th century is the description of the ancient Scottish seat of the Roman Catholic earls of Glenallan in Walter Scott’s The Antiquary. The late Countess, ‘partly from a haughty contempt of the times in which she lived, partly from her sense of family pride’, had not permitted the interiors to be modernised ... ”
