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Bernardino de Figueroa (c.1505-1586): from chapel master to archbishop (Barletta)

Bernardino de Figueroa [Osorio] is the only known case of an archbishop who, before being …

Sept. 26, 2023
Choir of the capilla real of Granada
Bernardino de Figueroa (c.1505-1586): from chapel master to archbishop (Granada)

Bernardino de Figueroa [Osorio] is the only known case of an archbishop who, before being …

Sept. 26, 2023
Collegiate church of San Pedro (Soria)
Works by Francisco Guerrero at the collegiate church of San Pedro in Soria

Works by Francisco Guerrero at the collegiate church of San Pedro in Soria.

Sept. 24, 2023
<em>Pianta di Napoli</em>. Alessandro Baratta (1629)
Feast and immaculist oath in the church of Gesù Nuovo in Naples (1618)

The celebration of the feast of the Conception of Mary and the immaculist oath in …

Sept. 20, 2023

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Procession of blood and disciplines during Lent in Seville (1285)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
26-03-2018

A brief piece of news from an apostolic brief by Pope Martin V, in 1285, brings us closer to the first penitential brotherhood that we know of in Seville. It …

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Inventory of the musical instruments and books for the wind players of the cathedral of Granada (1657)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
22-03-2018

The inventory of the “goods” of the Granada cathedral, carried out in 1657, provides us with a list of the instruments and minstrels’ books that the cathedral had on that …

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Zambreros (Moorish ensemble) in the Alhambra (1501)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
06-03-2018

&nbsp;On 19 April 1501, during one of her stays in Granada, Queen Isabella the Catholic ordered a payment of four doubloons of gold to a group of "newly converted instrumentalist", …

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