View of Alcalá Street in Madrid
Antonio Joli (c. 1750-1754)
Piazza Navona, Rome
Caspar van WitteI (1699)
View of Seville from Triana
Anonimous (1726)
Screen of the most noble and loyal city of Mexico
Anonymous
View of Zaragoza
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (1647)
Isabel's triumph (Brussels)
Denis van Alsloot (1616)
View of Granada
Civitates Orbis Terrarum, vol. 1. Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg (1572)
Nanban screen (Japan)
Kano Naizen (c. 1600)
Domestic music scene
Museu Nacional do Azulejo. Lisboa
Market. Goa
Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, van Ian Huygen van Linschoten naer de Oost ofte Portugaels Indien (1596)
A view of the Riviera di Chiaia. Naples
Gaspar van Wittel (c. 1710)
Chariot of the Common Joy (Seville)
Domingo Martínez (1748)
Vista de parte da cidade de S. Paulo do Reyno de Angola
Guilherme Paes de Menezes (1755)
Moorish dance (Granada)
Trachtenbuch. Christoph Weiditz (c. 1530-1340)
Chusco dance
Códice Trujillo del Peru o Martínez Compañón (c. 1785)
Constantinopolis
Hartmann Schedel (1493)
View of Valencia
Anton van der Wyngaerde (1563)
View of Venice from the Island of San Giorgio
Gaspare Vanvitelli (1697)
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In 1691, Madame d’Aulnoy published her Relation du voyage d’Espagne in Paris, a controversial text …
According to the will of Juan de Rojas, the altar of Las cabezas de San …
Documenting musical activity, the organs and the chant books library of Spanish male convents is …
An inventory from around 1628, with later additions, reveals the wealth of polyphonic music books …
The royal proclamations were one of the most important festive events in which the commitment between the royal power and the people and local institutions was staged, dressed up in …
On 6 May 1765, the inauguration of the Escuelas de la Purísima, next to the church of San Luis de los Franceses, took place, where a solemn mass was celebrated …
In 1615, the nuns of the convent of Santa María de Jesús in Seville sent a request to the cathedral to send them a contralto singer for the feast of …
A notarial protocol from Granada shows that the guild of masters of vihuela string making exported part of its artisan production to other parts of the Crown of Castile in …
Francisco Pacheco, painter and writer, includes the Jesuit theologian Luis de Alcázar in his Libro de descripción de verdaderos retratos de ilustres y memorables varones (Book of descriptions of true …
On Carpintería Street, behind the Coliseum -opened in 1593- was the "mesón de Comedias", which housed the actors who performed in the aforementioned stage, both owned by the municipal council.
Read articleThe earliest known arrangement of the ringing of the bells of Seville Cathedral dates from 1373. This record gives an account of the two bell towers that this institution had: …
In 1624, Manuel Sarmiento Mendoza, visitor of the women's convents in Seville, reported to the cathedral chapter that the convent of Santa Paula said that it was very short of …
In 1624, Manuel Sarmiento Mendoza, visitor of the female convents of Seville, granted permission for the profession of two musicians nuns in the convent of San Clemente, one without a …
In 1745, the Cathedral sold the Epistle organ, built in 1674 by the Valencian organ builders Miguel and Francisco Llop, to the Franciscan convent of San Antonio and San Diego. …
