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The  Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Leonardo Torriani (1588)
Soundscape on a galleon bound for the Indies (1573)

Eugenio Salazar de Alarcón, governor of the islands of Tenerife and La Palma, in a …

Feb. 23, 2026
Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean. Mateo Prunes (1563)
From Tripoli to Venice, fourteenth stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1588–1589)

On 14 November 1588, Francisco Guerrero, accompanied by his pupil Francisco Sánchez, five pilgrims and …

Feb. 19, 2026
Altar of San Juan Bautista. Anonymous (c. 1390)
Foundations and endowments of the altar of San Juan Bautista (c. 1390) and La Anunciación (c. 1463) in Córdoba Cathedral

The devotional, liturgical and funerary space of the old altar of Saint John the Baptist …

Feb. 16, 2026
Cathedral of Tarazona. Photo: Alfonso de Vicente.
Documents about Tomás Luis de Victoria in the cathedral of Tarazona (1591-1601)

An inventory from 1591 lists four printed books by Victoria, in addition to a handwritten …

Feb. 12, 2026

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Stella cæli extirpavit an antiphon against the plague

Juan Ruiz Jiménez, Juan Carlos Asensio Palacios
March 23, 2020

Tradition dates back to 1317 the miraculous handing over of Saint Bartholomew to the nuns of the convent of Santa Clara, in Coimbra, of the antiphon Stella cæli extirpavit to …

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Works of Francisco Guerrero in Lerma (Burgos)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
March 22, 2020

Works of Francisco Guerrero in the collegiate church of San Pedro and in the convent fo San Blas in Lerma (Burgos).

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Repair of the organ of the convent of Santa María de Jesús in Huécija (Almería) in 1712

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
March 7, 2020

Repair of the organ of the convent of Santa María de Jesús in Huécija (Almería) by the organ builder fray Miguel de San Jerónimo, resident in the convent of San …

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Repair of the organ of the church of Santa Cruz in Canjáyar (Almería) in 1712

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
March 5, 2020

Repair of the organ of the church of Santa Cruz in Canjáyar (Almería) by the organ builder fray Miguel de San Jerónimo, resident in the convent of San Antonio Abad …

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