Sculpture Collections in Early Modern Spain

'Es difi­cíl valorar el inmenso trabajo de las autoras del estudio que han tenido que manejar una bibliografí­a dispersa en las más variadas publicaciones y consultar los más diversos Archivos. Su labor ha fraguado en una obra pionera en su campo y por lo mismo de una gran importancia que sin duda abre nuevos caminos a la investigación.' Archivo Española de Arte 'Without doubt the value of this book lie in its transcriptions of a number of inventories and other documents in Spain dating from throughout the Habsburg era, from the time of Emperor Charles V in the mid-sixteenth century to the death of his great-great grandson King Charles II at the end of the seventeenth. It thus provides an invaluable reference source for the collecting and taste for sculpture in Baroque Spain.' Burlington Magazine 'While the authors state that 'This book is especially useful to specialists for its discussion of the typologies of collections and objects, and of the mechanics of state gifts, transport and collection display in this period', it is also a model of the results of careful archival research. Finally, with the wealth of information found within, this book will spawn new interest in early modern Spain and the collecting of sculpture in Spain.' Sixteenth Century Journal 'Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio and Rosario Coppel have amassed and worked through an astonishing quantity of primary documents and have organized and synthesized the contents of those rich resources in this valuable publication.' Journal of the History of Collections 'Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio and Rosario Coppel’s Sculpture Collections in Early Modern Spain is the first volume entirely dedicated to collections of this art form in the Iberian Peninsula and a welcome addition to the history of collecting.' Renaissance Quarterly 'This extremely useful book examines the presence of sculpture in sixteenth and seventeenth-century collections in Spain. Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio and Rosario Coppel have in this volume assembled an extraordinarily rich corpus of documentary material, which will be an essential source for future studies of the collecting of sculpture, not only in Spain, but also further afield.' Sculpture Journal