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January 27, 2010
Laura R. Bass The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. 196 pp.; 50 color ills.; 14 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780271033044)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2010.11

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Over the last two decades much important research has been done on Spanish portraiture of the early modern period and court portraiture in particular. A feature of this research has been its interdisciplinary approach, such as Juan Miguel Serrera’s seminal essay on the uses of portraiture (“Alonso Sánchez Coello y la mecánica del retrato de corte,” in Alonso Sánchez Coello, exh. cat., Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 1990, 38–63) and Javier Portús Pérez’s groundbreaking publications...