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“Ángeles, Belen y Cuevas”. José Vicente Ortí y Mayor
Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns in the convent of Nuestra Señora de Belén in Valencia (1722)

Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns in the convent of Nuestra Señora de …

May 20, 2023
Title page. Francisco Guerrero. <em>El viage de Hierusalem</em>. Valencia: herederos de Juan Navarro, 1593.
The first Valencian edition of El Viage de Hierusalem (1593) by Francisco Guerrero

The first Valencian edition of El Viage de Hierusalem (1593) by Francisco Guerrero came from …

May 6, 2023
Chapel of the convent of San Francisco de la Alhambra. Picture by Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Confraternities at the convent of San Francisco de la Alhambra

Confraternities at the convent of San Francisco de la Alhambra.

May 3, 2023
Facade of the convent of San Francisco. Ventura Pérez (c. 1760)
Testament of Pedro López, guitar maker (1671)

The will of the guitar maker Pedro López (17/10/1671) provides us with some biographical information, …

May 2, 2023

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Taverns in Seville in 1599

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
20-02-2017

Taverns were a favourable setting for the performance of popular music, as is reflected in the painting Three Musicians (c. 1617), one of the youthful works of the Sevillian painter …

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Zawiyya in the Albaicín

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
04-02-2017

In the first half of the 14th century, the Banu Sidi Buna family established a&nbsp;zawiyya&nbsp;(=&nbsp;marabout) in the upper part of the Albaicín that survived until the capture of the city …

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