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 first organ in the Collegiate Church of El Sacromonte was probably built in Seville, with all its registers split. It was donated to this institution around 1612 by Pedro …
In 1606, the Confraternity of the Sacred Passion of Our Redeemer Jesus Christ, which had its headquarters in the convent of La Merced, joined in the public prayers that were …
The organ of the convent of San José was built in Malaga Cathedral by Aquiles Ghys in 1904 and inaugurated on 8 December of that year.
The Confraternity of the Sacred Passion of Our Redeemer Jesus Christ was established in the convent of La Merced in the second third of the 16th century. Every year this …
Johannes Lange de Löwenberg, physician to the Elector of the Palatinate, Archduke Friedrich von Wittelsbach, provides us with an extraordinary account of the dances performed by a group of Moorish …
In 1714, the Mercedarian College of San Laureano organised a solemn ternary dedicated to Saint Laureano, Saint Joseph and Our Lady of Health. Three cantadas were sung to each of …
After the disentailment of Church properties, in 1836, the priest of the parish of Santa Isabel de Huetor Tajar (Granada) requested the organ from the Mercedarian convent of Nuestra Señora …
In January 1784, the confraternity of San Pedro ad Vincula celebrated the beatification of Mariana de Jesús, a tertiary of the Mercedarian Order, in the convent of San José in …
The biography of the anchorite Francisco Velasco (Baza, 1577-Granada, 1622) allows us to approach two facets of the soundscape of Granada: domestic music and the performance of popular songs in …
In July 1785, the confraternity of San Pedro ad Vincula organised the funeral rites of Francisco de Solís y Folch de Cardona, cardinal, archbishop of Seville, in the convent of …
