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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On 1st November 1625, Saint Bonaventure was solemnly proclaimed patron saint of the island of …
During the mandate of the mayor Vicente Cano (1787-1793), important public works and reforms were …
Four chapter agreements, six accounting items, a copy of a letter and three detailed inventories …
The discovery of an unpublished autograph letter by Cristóbal de Morales, dated 15 January 1546 …
In 1623, the entry of secular women into the cloister of the convent of la Madre de Dios (Comendadoras de Santiago) was authorized to reinforce the musical staff they had …
The pious endowment of Bartolomé Sánchez Paniagua in the church of Omnium Sanctorum in Seville, in 1481, allows us to know about the existence of an organ and an organist …
In July 1658, the town council of the city of Granada was responsible for the celebration of the urban festivities for the birth of Prince Felipe Próspero, which took place …
El Cathálogo de todos los criados mayores y menores que han servido a los excelentísimos duques de Medina, preserved in the Biblioteca del Palacio Real de Madrid, allows us to …
On 10 January 1600, the silk weaver Diego Ruiz signed an apprenticeship contract with Bartolomé de Salazar, a minstrel, to learn to play the shawm, which provides us with some …
In 1485, the beneficiaries of the church of San Bartolomé in Seville awarded the chapel of San Felipe and San Jacobo to the judeoconverso Andrés de Toledo, money changer, and …
The Franciscan nunnery of Santa Inés had a small music chapel at least since the seventeenth century, which was under the direction of a “chapel master”.
The pious endowment made by Isabel Sánchez in her will of a feast of the Conception and another of the Incarnation allows us to document the presence of the organ …
The contract established in 1574 between Juan Ortiz, "master of dance", and the instrumentalist Blas de Torres allows us to document the first "school" of dance in Granada.
Read articleThe Atarazanas (Shipyards) of Seville were the city's most important "artisan" complex and its main source of noise pollution from the 13th century to the beginning of the 17th century. …
