Mary E. Barnard is an associate professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University.Frederick A. de Armas is Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago..

‘A number of essays are eminently legible, providing for exemplary and informative readings for advanced undergraduate students; other essays will appeal to graduate students and specialists alike.’- Sanda Munjic (Hispanic Review vol 83:03:2015) ‘There are other books on the topic of material culture in the Spanish Golden Age, but this one adds to them the triptych representation of luxury, signified and disrupting objects…The essays are based on deep knowledge of previous criticism and provide an insightful perspective on the connections between the use of objects and the category of genre.’ - Juan Pablo Gil-Osle (Renaissance Quarterly vol 67:01:2014)

Mary E. Barnard is an associate professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University.Frederick A. de Armas is Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago..

‘A number of essays are eminently legible, providing for exemplary and informative readings for advanced undergraduate students; other essays will appeal to graduate students and specialists alike.’- Sanda Munjic (Hispanic Review vol 83:03:2015) ‘There are other books on the topic of material culture in the Spanish Golden Age, but this one adds to them the triptych representation of luxury, signified and disrupting objects…The essays are based on deep knowledge of previous criticism and provide an insightful perspective on the connections between the use of objects and the category of genre.’ - Juan Pablo Gil-Osle (Renaissance Quarterly vol 67:01:2014)

Mary E. Barnard is an associate professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University.Frederick A. de Armas is Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago..

‘A number of essays are eminently legible, providing for exemplary and informative readings for advanced undergraduate students; other essays will appeal to graduate students and specialists alike.’- Sanda Munjic (Hispanic Review vol 83:03:2015) ‘There are other books on the topic of material culture in the Spanish Golden Age, but this one adds to them the triptych representation of luxury, signified and disrupting objects…The essays are based on deep knowledge of previous criticism and provide an insightful perspective on the connections between the use of objects and the category of genre.’ - Juan Pablo Gil-Osle (Renaissance Quarterly vol 67:01:2014)