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)
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Lenten Misereres sung in front of the image of the Christ of the Expiration in …
On three separate occasions, music books were found to be missing soon after Sebastián de …
Luis del Mármol Carvajal, in his Descripción general de África, published in 1573, gives us …
Confraternities at the convent of Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza.
The permanent incorporation of a group of minstrels into Guadix Cathedral took place in 1588. They came from Úbeda and were all from the same family. Their first contract was …
On 5 April 1255, Doña Lambra, wife of Lope García de Losa, one of the conquerors of the city of Córdoba, increased the endowment of the chapel of San Miguel, …
The Royal Danish Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek), founded by King Frederick III in 1648 and opened to the public in 1793, has preserved copies of four different editions of Francisco …
There is a wealth of information about the musical instruments found in Calahorra Cathedral. A complete inventory from 1631, with later additions, is transcribed here.
We analyze the probable sequence of dedications of the chapel in Córdoba Cathedral currently known as San Esteban y San Bartolomé, as well as who its founders were and what …
Lawsuit filed in Madrid by Agustín de Silva Fernández de Híjar, 10th Duke of Hijar, against Alfonso García Jiménez, notary of that city, regarding the return of a fortepiano, built …
The minutes of the Burgos Cathedral Chapter record seven agreements regarding the acquisition of Victoria's books. The archive also preserves the composer's last known letter.
From Jerusalem to Samaria. Tenth stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1588).
In 1570, King Philip II spent two months residing in the city of Córdoba. Accompanying the monarch to Córdoba were Archdukes Rudolf and Ernest, as well as a large entourage …
The 1610 inquisitorial trial against Leonor de Guzmán, a mixed-race musician who had connections with members of the Madrid nobility, reveals the era's prejudices against female artists. Though she found …
