New releases

• Reina, madre y estadista
  Mariana de Austria y el gobierno de España When Philip IV of Spain died in 1665, his heir, Carlos II, was three years old. In addition to this looming dynastic crisis, decades of enormous military commitments had left…
• Visionarios románticos
  Balke, Lucas, Hertervig This exhibition catalogue brings together works by three Romantic artists: the Norwegians Peder Balke (1804–1887) and Lars Hertervig (1830–1902), and the Spaniard Eugenio Lucas  Velázquez (1817–1870). Drawing a parallel between…
• Visionary Romantics
  Balke, Lucas, Hertervig This exhibition catalogue brings together works by three Romantic artists: the Norwegians Peder Balke (1804–1887) and Lars Hertervig (1830–1902), and the Spaniard Eugenio Lucas  Velázquez (1817–1870). Drawing a parallel between…
• La corte en llamas
  Proceso al marqués de Heliche (1662-1663) Don Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán (Madrid, 1629 – Naples, 1687), Marquis of Heliche, was the son of Don Luis de Haro (Philip IV’s last valido) and aspired to succeed…
• El aire español
  Usos musicales de la nobleza española en Italia (1580-1640) In the late 1500s, by which time the Spanish Monarchy was well established on both sides of the Atlantic, a group of young aristocrats, poets, actors and musicians steered Spanish…
• Mariana de Neoburgo, última reina de los Austrias
  Vida y legado artístico Maria Anna of Neuburg (1667−1740), the second wife of Charles II, was queen consort of Spain for ten years and queen dowager for another forty. However, she is a little-known…
• España y América
  Construcción de la identidad en las exposiciones internacionales (1876-1915) Spain and America have long used international exhibitions to create, promote, modify, and contest national identity. In this book, M. Elizabeth Boone investigates a series of Spanish exhibitions, with particular…
• Jardines en tiempos de los Austrias This book takes a fascinating look at the historic gardens that Spanish nobles built for their own pleasure and where they displayed immensely valuable botanical and antiquarian collections. It also…
• El arquitecto ilustrado
  Del oficio a la profesión Given the huge number of books on the history of architecture, it is surprising that comparatively little attention has been paid to that of masters and clerks of works and…