A History of Spanish Painting. Volume II A History of Spanish Painting, Volume II: The Franco-Gothic Style. The Italo-Gothic and International Styles.

These volumes inaugurate a general history of Spanish painting that for the first time makes a synthesis of the developments in the different schools of the peninsula, correlates these developments with the evolution of the rest of European art, and treats the various tendencies and all the extant examples in detail. The work includes the pre-Romanesque and Romanesque periods, the Franco-Gothic and Italo-Gothic manners of the fourteenth century, and the “international style” of the first half of the fifteenth century, carrying the reader to about the year 1450 in preparation for subsequent volumes on the more extensively preserved painting of the later Quattrocento. Chandler Post brings to his task the results of many years of research and travel. Not the least of his duties has been the difficult problem of procuring photographs, but he has succeeded in gathering material that enables him to illustrate the volumes copiously and to devote to almost every monument one or two reproductions, which in many instances have never before been published. CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PART III. THE FRANCO-GOTHIC STYLE CHAPTER XI. THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL SETTING OF GOTHIC PAINTING IN SPAIN UNTIL THE MIDDLE OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY CHAPTER XII. THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FRANCO-GOTHIC PAINTING IN SPAIN CHAPTER XIII. THE FRANCO-GOTHIC MOVEMENT IN CATALONIA AND VALENCIA CHAPTER XIV. ARAGONESE FRESCOES IN THE FRANCO-GOTHIC STYLE CHAPTER XV. ARAGONESE PANEL PAINTINGS IN THE FRANCO-GOTHIC STYLE CHAPTER XVI. FRANCO-GOTHIC PAINTING IN NAVARRE CHAPTER XVII. FRANCO-GOTHIC PAINTING IN ÁLAVA AND LOGROÑO CHAPTER XVIII. FRANCO-GOTHIC PAINTING IN THE REST OF WESTERN SPAIN PART IV. THE ITALO-GOTHIC AND INTERNATIONAL STYLES CHAPTER XIX. THE ITALO-GOTHIC AND INTERNATIONAL STYLES IN EUROPE CHAPTER XX. THE SOURCES AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ITALO-GOTHIC AND INTERNATIONAL STYLES IN SPAIN, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CATALONIA CHAPTER XXI. FERRER BASSA AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES CHAPTER XXII. JAIME SERRA AND HIS SCHOOL CHAPTER XXIII. PEDRO SERRA AND THE SCHOOL OF THE SERRAS CHAPTER XXIV. BORRASSÁ AND HIS SCHOOL CHAPTER XXV. JAIME CABRERA CHAPTER XXVI. MARTORELL CHAPTER XXVII. THE MANNER OF GUIMERÁ CHAPTER XXVIII. THE MASTER OF ST. GEORGE AND HIS SCHOOL CHAPTER XXIX. OTHER CATALAN PAINTINGS IN THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE APPENDIX