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Church of Santa Maria di Nazareth
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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External organist and dulcian player in the convent of La Madre de Dios (1623)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-02-2019

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 …

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Chaplains and musicians in the service of Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, Fifth Duke of Medina Sidonia (1516)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
06-02-2019

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 …

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Dance school in Granada (1574)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
26-01-2019

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.

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