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Santa Teresa o la llama permanente
Estudios históricos, artísticos y literarios
This volume brings together a score of papers delivered at the international conference «Y tan alta vida espero». Santa Teresa o la llama permanente. De 1515 a 2015 held at…
Carreño de Miranda
Dibujos
The works on paper of Carreño de Miranda (1614‒1685) are among the most noteworthy produced in seventeenth-century Spain on account of his highly personal style and his significant influence on…
Roma hispánica
Cultura festiva española en la capital del Barroco
Rome and Spain maintained very close ties from the times of the Catholic Monarchs to the dawn of the contemporary era. The city was the seat of the head of…
Les Espagnes de Mérimée
The expression “Mérimée’s Spain” has negative connotations south of the Pyrenees, as it encompasses all the Spanish stereotypes that were disseminated by the French Romantics (mayors, bullfighters, gypsies, cigarette girls…).…
Españoles en la corte de los Medici
Arquitectura y política en tiempos de Cosimo I
When Cosimo I arrived in Florence from exile in 1537, Italy was a complex stage where Spain, France and the Papacy played out their rivalry. Cosimo very soon became a…
Ojo crítico y memoria visual
Escritos de arte
José Milicua carried out research like a scientist, spoke like a connoisseur and wrote like a poet. He brought a fresh intellectual approach to problems both old and new and…
Copied by the Sun
Talbotype Illustrations to the “Annals of the Artists of Spain”
by Sir William Stirling Maxwell
In 1847 William Stirling Maxwell (1818–1878) published the three volumes of his Annals of the Artists of Spain in London. They were followed by a fourth – a limited edition…
Chinese Porcelain in Habsburg Spain
Although Spain was one of the main commercial and colonial powers of the Modern Age, its role in the circulation of Chinese export porcelain was far from being very clear.…
Ceán Bermúdez
Historiador del arte y coleccionista ilustrado
Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez (1749–1829) is a key name in Spanish art historiography. His life and writings were closely linked to those of other Enlightenment figures of the period such…