Iridescence and the Image - Material Thinking in the Early Modern Spanish World

"Explores how seventeenth-century Spanish painter Antonio de Pereda and his contemporaries used iridescent materials such as textiles, feathers, and shells to examine visual perception and cultural meaning. Traces transatlantic influences and reveals how these materials shaped debates on knowledge, empiricism, and belief in early modern Spain and Mexico"--

About the author

Brendan C. McMahon is Assistant Professor of History of Art at the University of Michigan.

Product details

• Authors: Brendan C. McMahon
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 14.10.2025
• EAN: 9780271099699
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09969-9
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 254 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 214 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Mexico, European History, Spain, ART / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, History of art / art & design styles, Caribbean islands, History of Art, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Spanish Civil War, HISTORY / Europe / Spain