View of Alcalá Street in Madrid
Antonio Joli (c. 1750-1754)
Piazza Navona, Rome
Caspar van WitteI (1699)
View of Seville from Triana
Anonimous (1726)
Screen of the most noble and loyal city of Mexico
Anonymous
View of Zaragoza
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (1647)
Isabel's triumph (Brussels)
Denis van Alsloot (1616)
View of Granada
Civitates Orbis Terrarum, vol. 1. Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg (1572)
Nanban screen (Japan)
Kano Naizen (c. 1600)
Domestic music scene
Museu Nacional do Azulejo. Lisboa
Market. Goa
Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, van Ian Huygen van Linschoten naer de Oost ofte Portugaels Indien (1596)
A view of the Riviera di Chiaia. Naples
Gaspar van Wittel (c. 1710)
Chariot of the Common Joy (Seville)
Domingo Martínez (1748)
Vista de parte da cidade de S. Paulo do Reyno de Angola
Guilherme Paes de Menezes (1755)
Moorish dance (Granada)
Trachtenbuch. Christoph Weiditz (c. 1530-1340)
Chusco dance
Códice Trujillo del Peru o Martínez Compañón (c. 1785)
Constantinopolis
Hartmann Schedel (1493)
View of Valencia
Anton van der Wyngaerde (1563)
View of Venice from the Island of San Giorgio
Gaspare Vanvitelli (1697)
In the last quarter of the 16th century, different groups of slave minstrels, made up …
A document in the Simancas Archive provides us with a valuable testimony in which a …
In 1680, Inés Jacinta Manrique, “señora del donadío de la Torre de Quadros”, left in …
Confraternities at the church of San Cristóbal in Granada.
The existing musical groups in small population centers are still very little known. They played an important role in the solemnization of civic-religious festivities sponsored by the municipal council and …
In 1606, the cathedral chapter of Puerto Rico wrote to the organist Juan Bautista Vitoria, resident in Seville, to take them an organ that the organero Cristóbal de Aguilera had …
In 1606, the organist Juan Bautista Vitoria was in charge of carrying an organ built in Seville by the organist Cristóbal de Aguilera to Puerto Rico. It was not the …
The first reference to the organ in the church of La Encarnación of Alhama dates from 1514, when this instrument was already played by organist Gonzalo de Guadix. The works …
This event presents information about the House of the Chirimías in Valladolid, which was built at the request of the town hall in 1602. For many years, the sound of …
Read articleIn 1613, a turret of music was inaugurated in the Prado de San Jerónimo, a unique building similar to the one that already existed in Valladolid. From their balconies, the …
The embassy of King Philip III to Persia, headed by García de Silva and Figueroa, entered the city of Isfahan (Iran) on May 1, 1618. The ambassador thoroughly describes the …
Francisco Guerrero stayed for four days in the lodgings that the Franciscans had inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, whose emblematic places he walked in procession and alone on …
The Meninos de Jesus College in Bahia was founded with seven children from the Órfãos Meninos College in Lisbon who arrived at the mission in 1550. To these initial group, …
In July 1556, the Melchor Núñez Barreto expedition landed in Funai (Bungo, currently Ōita, in Japan), where at least three young people arrived from the colleges of Órphãos Meninos in …
