New releases
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Dibujos de Juan Conchillos Falcó (1641-1711). Catálogo razonado
Juan Conchillos Falcó (1641–1711) was one of the most prominent painters of the Valencian Baroque school. As he has not enjoyed widespread historiographical recognition, he is currently fairly unknown to…
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Contra la guerra
Los Desastres de Goya
In 1810, during the Peninsular War (1808–14), Francisco de Goya began working on the 82 prints that make up the Disasters of War, in which he artistically portrayed the experience…
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British Travellers in Seville & their Drawings, 1715–1854
This book offers a wide-ranging and accurate survey of British travellers in Seville from the early eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Well-known characters such as the poet Lord Byron, the artist…
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Luis de Vargas, pincel y mano peregrina
Luis de Vargas, a painter seldom studied despite his importance to sixteenth-century Spanish art, returned to Seville in 1550 after two long decades in Italy and burst onto the local…
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Pedro de Villafranca: Printmaker at the Court of Philip IV
This is the first comprehensive account of the life and work of the Spanish artist Pedro de Villafranca y Malagón (c. 1615–1684). His unrivalled skill as an engraver was recognised…
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Arquitectura y Monarquía en Madrid, 1620-1700
With its selection as the court of the Spanish Habsburgs, Madrid became the de facto capital of a global empire, a place from which momentous decisions were made whose implications…
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Francisco Bayeu’s Study of a Dog from Life
Francisco Bayeu (1734–1795) was the most influential painter at the Spanish court in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Painter to Charles III and IV and director of the…