Published to accompany the exhibition at the National Gallery, London, 21 October 2009-24 January 2010 and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 28 February-31 May 2010. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-205) and index. - The sacred made real: Spanish painting and sculpture 1600-1700 / Xavier Bray -- The art of devotion: seventeenth-century Spanish painting and sculpture in tis religious context / Alfonso Rodriquez G. De Ceballos -- The making of a seventeenth-century Spanish polychrome sculpture / Daphne Barbour and Judy Ozone -- Catalogue / introductions by Xavier Bray. The art of painting sculpture: the quest for reality ; The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception ; A true likeness: portraits ; The Passion of Christ ; Saint Francis in meditation ; The 'Spanish paragone': Saint Serapion ; Francisco Pacheco's dispute with Juan Martinez Montaänes -- Biographies of the artists.