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Choir lectern of the Seville cathedral (detail). Bartolomé Morel (1565)
The minstrels of Seville Cathedral play motets by Tomás Luis de Victoria (1587-1673)

Several documents link the shipment of a book of motets by Victoria with the group …

Dec. 12, 2025
Damascus. <em>Civitatis Orbis Terrarum<em/>. Georg Braun y Franz Hogenberg (1588)
From Bethsaida to Damascus. Twelfth stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1588)

In the last days of October 1588, the caravan in which Francisco Guerrero was travelling …

Dec. 8, 2025
Eruption of 1669. Giacinto Platania
Rogations processions in Catania during the eruption of 1669

Between March and July 1669, Mount Etna experienced its most destructive eruption in two thousand …

Dec. 1, 2025
Cathedral of Valladolid. Project of Juan de Herrera according Fernando Chueca Goitia.
Documents about Tomás Luis de Victoria in the cathedral of Valladolid (1581-1876)

The collegiate church of Santa María de Valladolid became a cathedral during Victoria's lifetime. The …

Nov. 28, 2025

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Sale of a vihuela at an auction in Seville (1546)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
07-02-2018

In 1546, a vihuela was sold at the auction of the estate of Catalina de Bobadilla, a former resident of Triana, in Seville.

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Organs for the court in Granada (1501)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
25-01-2018

On March 18, 1501, with the court residing in the Alhambra in Granada, Queen Isabel ordered that three organs that were in the Alcázar of Madrid be brought to the …

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