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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The Royal Danish Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek), founded by King Frederick III in 1648 and …
There is a wealth of information about the musical instruments found in Calahorra Cathedral. A …
We analyze the probable sequence of dedications of the chapel in Córdoba Cathedral currently known …
Lawsuit filed in Madrid by Agustín de Silva Fernández de Híjar, 10th Duke of Hijar, …
The apprenticeship contract drawn up in 1647 between the organist Pedro de Cátedra Fajardo, a resident of the Seville parish of Santa María Magdalena, and Pedro de León, father of …
The biographical profile of Adriana del Espíritu Santo offers us an interesting example of the musical education of the young women of the Granada oligarchy and of the parties that …
In Seville in the late 18th century, there was a thriving market for printed music, both local and international, which was apparently run through specialist shops.
The first documented equestrian games in the city of Granada following its conquest were those organised by Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones (1440–1515), 2nd Count of Tendilla and 1st …
On 13 and 14 February 1789, the Royal Society of Medicine and other sciences of Seville celebrated the funeral rites of Carlos III in the convent of Nuestra Señora de …
The German traveller Hieronymus Münzer, in his Journey through Spain and Portugal (1494-95), gives us an account of the burial ceremony he witnessed on his visit to the Muslim cemetery …
The Seville press of the late 18th century allows us to trace a thriving market for the sale of second-hand instruments throughout the city.
In Granada, the cathedral’s music chapel was a pioneer in introducing horns into its instrumental line-up, thanks to a suggestion made by Gregorio Portero, its chapel master, to the cathedral …
In the second half of the 18th century, the Real Maestranza of Seville organized a series of public concerts in the bullring that seem to fade away with the first …
