New releases

• Collecting Murillo in Britain and Ireland The art of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682) captured the British imagination in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Wealthy collectors competed for the choicest pictures, artists imitated his styles and adopted…
• Diccionario Cervantes This dictionary offers readers the chance to survey Cervantes’ life and oeuvre as they please through more than 130 entries that make it possible to focus on his family environment,…
• Ambassadors in Golden-Age Madrid
  The Court of Philip IV through Foreign Eyes Through a selection of diplomats of various nationalities (the Holy Roman Empire, the Holy See, France, England, Venice, Tuscany, Genova, the small Italian states, Sweden, Denmark, Poland and the Ottoman…
• Ideas de los españoles del siglo XVII This classic book, which is used rather than quoted, addresses the opinion Spaniards held of themselves, of the peoples who made up the Spanish empire, and of the foreigners with…
• Mariano Benlliure y Nueva York This book is devoted to the work of the sculptor Mariano Benlliure (Valencia, 1862−Madrid, 1947) in the United States, which is mostly held in the collection of the Hispanic Society…
• El maestro de papel
  Cartillas para aprender a dibujar de los siglos XVII al XIX Early seventeenth-century Europe saw the emergence of drawing primers, educational materials that revolutionised the traditional methods of teaching this discipline as they enabled artists, amateurs and individuals to progress without…
• Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain Alonso Berruguete (c. 1488–1561) revolutionized the arts of Renaissance Spain with a dramatic style of sculpture that reflected the decade or more he had spent in Italy while young. Trained…
• Valentín Carderera (1796-1880)
  Dibujante, coleccionista y viajero romántico Valentín Carderera y Solano (Huesca, 1796 – Madrid, 1880) was a painter, scholar, communicator, collector and traveller. His life was marked by his efforts to safeguard Spain’s historical heritage and…
• El valimiento y el gobierno de la Monarquía Hispánica (1640-1665) El valimiento y el gobierno de la Monarquía Hispánica (1640−1665) examines the last years of Philip IV’s reign through Don Luis Méndez de Haro and other ministers of a period that…