The document provides an overview of art and culture from Spain's Golden Age with examples including: - Flamenco dancing, paella, and bullfighting - Archaeological artifacts from 5th century BC to 1st century AD Rome - Architecture from Visigothic, Islamic, and Christian periods like the Alhambra palace - Paintings of royalty and writers from the 1500s-1600s including works by Velazquez, El Greco, and Zurbaran - Las Meninas by Velazquez, which is displayed at the Prado Museum in Madrid

1. Art and Culture of the Spanish Golden Age Session 1: Introduction ARTH 299 SPAN 301

2. Flamenco Dancer

3. Paella

4. Running of the Bulls in San Fermin, Pamplona, Spain

5. Tapas

6. Spanish Beach

8. La Dama de Elche , between 5 th and 2 nd cent. B.C., Museo Arqueológico, Madrid

9. Greek ruins in Ampurias, Catalonia, Spain

10. Aqueduct of Segovia, 1 st cent. A.D., Segovia, Spain

11. Roman Theater of Mérida, 18 B.C., Merida, Spain

12. Visigothic votive crown, 649-72, Madrid, Museo Arqueológico

13. Interior of the Great Mosque at Córdoba, 8 th cent.-9 th cent., Córdoba, Spain

14. Two views of the Alhambra Palace , 13 th cent.-14 th cent., Granada, Spain

16. Spain in 1492

17. The Catholic Kings , Façade of the University of Salamanca, 1520s, Salamanca, Spain

18. Artist unknown, Christopher Columbus landing on Hispaniola , Spanish engraving, 1728.

19. Titian, Charles V on Horseback , 1548

20. Spanish dominions in the times of Charles V

22. Pierre Perret, Philip II, Religion and the Escorial , engraved frontispiece to Luis Cabrera de Córdoba, Felipe II Rey de España , Madrid, 1619

23. Juan de Herrera, El Escorial , 1567-1584, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain

25. Bird’s eye view of the Plaza Mayor, Madrid, Spain

26. Juan de la Corte, View of the Plaza Mayor of Madrid in 1623, 1630s Plaza Mayor, Madrid, Municipal building in the southern range

27. Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Philip III , 1606

28. Diego Velázquez, Philip IV , 1623-27 Diego Velázquez, The Count-Duke of Olivares on Horseback , 1638

29. Juan de Jáuregui, Miguel de Cervantes , 1600 Lisbon edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha , 1605

30. Artist unknown , Portrait of Francisco de Quevedo , c. 1625-30 Diego Velázquez, Portrait of Luis de Góngora

31. Anonymous, Portrait of Lope de Vega , 17 th cent. Juan Alfaro, Portrait of Calderón de la Barca , 17 th cent.

32. El Greco, The Fifth Seal of the Apocalypse , 1608-1614

33. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Urchin Hunting Fleas , c. 1648

34. Juan Van der Hamen y León, Still Life ,

35. Jusepe Ribera, Martyrdom of Saint Andrew , 1628

36. Francisco Zurbarán, The Young Virgin Praying , c. 1632-33

37. Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas , 1656

38. Sculpture of Velázquez at the entrance of the Prado Museum

39. Las Meninas at the Prado Museum

40. Paper-mache figures in Madrid store’s balcony

41. Pablo Picasso, Detail from Las Meninas after Velázquez , 1957 Equipo Crónica, Las Meninas , or La Salita , 1970