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<em>A sermon in the Orange Tree Courtyard</em>. José Jiménez Aranda (c. 1876)
Sermons at the Patio de los Naranjos in Seville Cathedral (c.1400-c.1920)

The sermons preached from the pulpit in the courtyard of the Orange Trees in Seville …

June 18, 2023
Virgen de los Dolores. José de Mora (1671). Picture by Juan Ruiz Jiméne
Confraternities at the Oratory of San Felipe Neri

Confraternities at the Oratory of San Felipe Neri.

June 14, 2023
Northern part of the convent of San Francisco de Valladolid according to the hypothesis of Sáiz Virumbrales and Castro Sánchez (2021).
Christmas Matins and Midnight Mass in the convent of San Francisco de Valladolid (1659)

In his Journal du voyage d'Espagne, François Bertaut de Fréauville, French diplomat and writer, takes …

June 6, 2023
<em>Motecta festorum totius anni</em>. Tomás Luis de Victoria (Roma, 1585)
Works by Francisco Guerrero in Valencia cathedral

Works by Francisco Guerrero in Valencia cathedral.

May 28, 2023

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First organs of Mallorca cathedral (13th and 14th centuries)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
29-08-2019

The oldest extant Llibre de Fàbrica of the Cathedral of Mallorca (1327-1345) provides us some information about the musical activity in this institution. In this event, you will find the …

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Italian music for cardinal Portocarrero at the archbishops palace in Toledo

José María Domínguez Rodríguez
29-08-2019

In a letter dated 30 August 1679, the French countess of Aulnoy wrote that cardinal Portocarrero «had brought musicians from Rome whom he paid very well» and described a banquet …

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African drummers in late fifteenth-century Barcelona

Tess Knighton
25-08-2019

Black musicians – including drummers, trumpeters, wind-players&nbsp;and singers – were active throughout Europe during the&nbsp; fifteenth and sixteenth centuries employed at courts and by civic authorities. Some were slaves; others …

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Saturday Mass of Our Lady and salve

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
23-08-2019

From the beginning of the 16th century, in the diocese of the Canarias, suffragan of Seville, we find the foundation of two liturgical services that had previously been founded in …

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Mencía de Requesens is welcomed in 1602

Ascensión Mazuela Anguita
22-08-2019

The Palau de la Comtessa (Palace of the Countess) in Barcelona was an important setting for social networking and meetings between members of the nobility, royalty, and government in the …

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