New releases

• 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 del 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…
• El camarín del desengaño
  Juan de Espina, coleccionista y curioso del siglo XVII Juan de Espina Velasco (1583−1642), a nobleman of Madrid and cleric of minor orders, has gone down in history – initially as the unwitting protagonist of two eighteenth-century magical plays…
• Nacer en palacio
  El ritual del nacimiento en la corte de los Austrias Motherhood, which stands at a disciplinary crossroads, has become a historiographic subject in its own right. It has gone from being viewed as an exclusively biological circumstance to being considered…