Abstract
The art conscious public has had its eyes opened to many phases of the Baroque in recent years through a number of important shows of Italian, Dutch and Flemish paintings that have been mounted in Europe, Canada and the United States. Sculpture, which is admittedly more difficult to assemble for an exhibition, has lagged far behind in this general upsurge of interest in the art of the seventeenth century, and even among its devotees only the works of the most famous masters are well known. Few sculptors, in truth, have received less public attention than the Spanish artists whose works in polychromed wood decorate so splendidly the churches and cathedrals of southern Spain. America is particularly barren in works of this school and major museums in other parts of the world, including the Prado, are hardly richer, so that while the names of Zurbaran, Velazquez or Murillo are as familiar as any in the history of art, those of the contemporary Andalusian sculptors, Montanes, Juan de Mesa or Alonso Cano, are ...
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