ART OF SPAIN XVII AND XVIII CENTURIES

For the artists of that time working at a court yard similar style of execution of works was characteristic. By making the portraits of members of royal family and notable aristocrats, they have begun special type of the Spanish court portrait. The Spanish aristocrats differed extreme stiffness and arrogance. They did not demand, that them wrote beautiful because were proud of themselves, but wanted, that the portrait expressed their class advantage. Them wrote dressed in black, cold and unapproachable, is quiet-important, standing very directly.