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.

Volume I Introduction. The Romanesque Style

Volume II The Franco-Gothic Style. The Italo-Gothic and International Styles

Volume III The Italo-Gothic and International Styles (Continued)

Volume IV–Part 1 The Hispano-Flemish Style in North-Western Spain

Volume IV–Part 2 The Hispano-Flemish Style in North-Western Spain

Volume V The Hispano-Flemish Style in Andalusia

Volume VI–Part 1 The Valencian School in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance

Volume VI–Part 2 The Valencian School in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance

Volume IX–Part 1 The Beginning of the Renaissance in Castile and Leon

Volume IX–Part 2 The Beginning of the Renaissance in Castile and Leon

Volume X The Early Renaissance in Andalusia

Volume XI The Valencian School in the Early Renaissance

Volume XII–Part 1 The Catalan School in the Early Renaissance

Volume XII–Part 2 The Catalan School in the Early Renaissance

Volume XIII The Schools of Aragon and Navarre in the Early Renaissance

Volume XIV The Later Renaissance in Castile