Carducho and the Spanish Literary Baroque -- Painting and Poetry in Diálogos de la Pintura -- Carducho the conceptista -- Observations on Readership and Circulation -- Art Aficionados at Court -- Carducho and Sacred Oratory -- Carducho and Ideas about Religious Art -- Carducho's Late Holy Families and Decorum -- Zuccari and the Carduchos -- Italian Training at the Spanish Court -- Carducho and the Eloquence of Drawing -- The Paragone between Painting and Sculpture -- Carducho and pintura de borrones -- Plates from Diálogos de la Pintura -- Appendices -- Bibliography.
A collection of essays by international experts on Vicente Carducho's treatise the Dialogues on Painting (1633), which dealt with the depiction of religious and profane subjects, the creation of collections and the status of the painter in baroque Spain.