Spirit & Splendor: El Greco, Velázquez, and the Hispanic Baroque

About the Exhibition

The Hispanic Society Museum & Library is home to the most extensive collection of early modern Hispanic art and literature outside of Spain. Featuring selected highlights from this esteemed collection, Spirit & Splendor traces a 150-year history of Spanish painting that culminates with the Baroque, a style characterized by dramatic realism, opulence, and religious devotion. 

Showcasing 57 works, the exhibition includes masterpieces by renowned artists like El Greco and Diego Velázquez, as well as by José de Páez and Melchor Pérez Holguín, painters who actively spread the Baroque aesthetic in Mexico and Peru, territories that at the time were under Spanish rule.

This exhibition was organized by The Hispanic Society of America, with support from The Museum Box.

This presentation is organized by Holly Borham, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and European Art and Rosario Granados, Marilynn Thoma Curator, Art of the Spanish Americas, Blanton Museum of Art 

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