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Art of EstrangementRedefining Jews in Reconquest SpainPamela A. PattonPAMELA A. PATTONDiego Velázquez’s Early Paintingsand the Culture of Seventeenth-Century Seville“Few scholars can demonstrate facility with visualTanya J. Tiffanyculture across such a wide geographical and culturalarena, much less articulate it with insight, vigor,and clarity. Pamela Patton’s Art of Estrangement willbe a significant contribution to the growingart-historical literature on medieval Christianrepresentations of non-Christians, and, moregenerally, it will push ahead our understanding ofhow works of art function as active agents in theformation of cultural attitudes.”—Debra Higgs Strickland,University of Glasgow“Art of Estrangement is a masterful study of themeaning of images of Jews in Iberian Christianvisual culture after the Reconquista. The incisiveanalysis Pamela Patton offers of these intriguingand sometimes disturbing images is most welcome—and,in fact, revolutionary.”—Marc Michael Epstein,Vassar CollegeART ofESTRANGEMENTREDEFINING JEWS IN RECONQUEST SPAINdiego velázquez’s early paintings andthe culture of seventeenth-century sevilletanya j. tiffany“Tanya Tiffany’s mastery of the documentary,historical, theological, ethnographic, and literarymaterial of Africans in Seville is meticulous, broad,and thorough. This is a significant contribution tothe field. It offers new interpretations and advancestheoretical discussions of race, gender, iconographicaldescription, intellectual life, and Velázquez’shistorical stature in important paintings.”—Gridley McKim-Smith,Bryn Mawr College“Drawing upon a wealth of new sources, TanyaTiffany has managed to reconstruct the social,intellectual, and religious world of Seville as it waswhen Spain’s most celebrated seventeenth-centuryartist lived there. Especially revealing are herdetailed readings of his early works, his deservedlycelebrated bodegones among them. The result is astrikingly original and wholly convincing understandingof this still poorly understood phase in220 pages | 23 color/59 b&w illustrations | 8 x 10 | 2013isbn 978-0-271-05383-7 | cloth: $79.95 shVelázquez’s artistic career. This handsome volumedeserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone seriouslyinterested in Velázquez, let alone the art andhistory of Golden Age Spain.”—Richard Kagan,Johns Hopkins University256 pages | 20 color/50 b&w illustrations | 8 x 10 | 2012isbn 978-0-271-05379-0 | cloth: $79.95 shla verdaderaimitación delnatural10 | penn state press1-800-326-9180 | 11