The Rediscovery of Spanish Art 

This long-neglected school was brought back into fashion by the Romantics and early Moderns.

Critical literature often refers to the Spanish style or the Spanish school. However, what does it actually mean? How and why did this style of painting reappear in Paris? Why was it considered contrary to French academic principles? And more so, how did it influence our great modern painters, specifically Édouard Manet?