内容简介：
Essays on: Giorgione and Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy; The Escorial and Philip II; El Greco's Greek Phantasy and Toledo's Fantasia; Francisco Zurbaran and the claritas of Bright Colours; Velazquez and Francisco Sanchez: the precursor of Descartes; Goya and Benito Feijoo: the artist's liberation through the new sensibility; Pablo Picasso and Ruben Dario: the new world of rhythms.