New releases

• Ambassadors in Golden-Age Madrid
  The Court of Philip IV through Foreign Eyes This book sets out to describe the experiences of foreign ambassadors dispatched to Spain during the long reign of Philip IV (1621–65). Through a selection of diplomats of various nationalities—from…
• 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…
• Bartolomé Bermejo, Master of the Spanish Renaissance Painted in 1468, Saint Michael Triumphant over the Devil, which was acquired by the National Gallery in 1995, is unquestionably the most important early Spanish painting in Britain. The first…
• La serliana en Europa
  Fortuna y funciones de un elemento arquitectónico (siglos VII-XVIII) The serliana (Venetian window) is the feature which best sums up the history of western architecture and whose prestige has been the most long-lasting, spanning from late Hellenism to the…