{"product_id":"crime-and-illusion-the-art-of-truth-in-the-spanish-golden-age-9781912554096","title":"Crime and Illusion: The Art of Truth in the Spanish Golden Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Felipe Pereda\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Harvey Miller\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harvey Miller\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History - European - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to an old historiographic tradition, the Spanish Golden Age placed the imitation of nature at the service of religion: its radical naturalism responded to the deep faith of that culture and moment. Crime \u0026amp; Illusion argues the opposite. It defends the thesis that the fundamental problem artists of the Golden Age confronted was not imitation but Truth. Moreover a large part, maybe the best part, of Spanish Baroque religious imagery is better understood as a complex exercise in addressing the spectators' doubts. Hovering on the horizon of an emerging empiricism, artists created their images as pieces of evidence, arguments for belief. Crime \u0026amp; Illusion reconstructs and interprets this judicial or forensic aspect of early modern visual culture at the center of a political, religious, and scientific triangle. Finally, the book explores the artists' skeptical reflection on the problematic relationship of painting and sculpture to the art of truth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvey Miller","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889418649751,"sku":"9781912554096","price":8155.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781912554096.webp?v=1781176368","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/crime-and-illusion-the-art-of-truth-in-the-spanish-golden-age-9781912554096","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}