An account of how Spanish painters of the 16th and 17th centuries dealt with mystic visions in their art, and attempted to represent the unrepresentable. It aim... » 

An account of how Spanish painters of the 16th and 17th centuries dealt with mystic visions in their art, and attempted to represent the unrepresentable. It aims to establish a theory of visionary imagery in Western art in general, and one for the Spanish Counter-Reformation in particular. «