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<em>Procession of flagellants</em>. Gerard ter Borch (c.1638)
The process of reduction of penitential confraternities in Granada (1597)

A finales del siglo XVI, el elevado número de cofradías penitenciales existentes en Granada generó …

March 27, 2022
Choir stalls of the convent of Santo André de Rendufe
Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Ms. 40 at the Biblioteca Pública Municipal de Oporto

Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Ms. 40 at the Biblioteca Pública Municipal de Oporto.

March 24, 2022
Convent of  São Bento da Santo Tirso
Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Ms. 40 at the Biblioteca Pública Municipal de Oporto

Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Ms. 40 at the Biblioteca Pública Municipal de Oporto.

March 24, 2022
Biblioteca Pública Municipal in Oporto. Picture by Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Ms. 40 at the Biblioteca Pública Municipal de Oporto

Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Ms. 40 at the Biblioteca Pública Municipal in Oporto.

March 24, 2022

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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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