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This paper draws conclusions on some major issues raised in 'The Royal Inventories of Charles V and the Imperial Family' research project, funded by The Getty Grant Program and published in 2010. Besides the Emperor’s inventories, those... more
My paper analyzes the uses of meditative images in Renaissance Spain, with particular reference to court culture. Through a survey of devotional paintings and manuscripts owned by Isabella the Catholic (1451-1504), Charles V (1500-1558)... more
El palacio del mercader y diplomático Antonio de Guaras y Cunchillos de Liori es uno de los monumentos más significativos del patrimonio artístico y cultural de la ciudad episcopal de Tarazona, una pieza fundamental de la arquitectura... more
Although the Habsburgs are generally considered as the prototype of concealed monarchs distant from their subjects, their court protocol demonstrates that they knew how to employ, with considerable skill, the range of resources offered by... more
"The article examines the activism that Peruvian mestizos carried out in order to rearticulate their agency and identity in a positive and polemical manner in late sixteenth-century colonial Peru. The research focuses on two related and... more
My study, pertaining to the section of the exhibition entitled 'The Devotion of the Period and the King’s Piety', extrapolates the uses of meditative images in Renaissance Spain from the mutual implications between devotional paintings... more
This text, the first comprehensive biography ever published of the Fourth Count of Monteagudo as a collector, shows him not only interested in art patronage, but also in bibliophily and the display of relics, as a faithful repetition on a... more
During 1886, the first excavation year of the large Early Iron Age cremation cemetery V logu at Kobarid in the Upper Soča Valley (western Slovenia), where until now more than 1400 graves have been uncovered, Carlo Marchesetti from Trieste... more
The evolution of Madrid’s noble palaces is examined in this article, starting from the fortified medieval models to the ornamental buildings of the Emperor’s time and the Philippine classicism. My conclusions, which set up the splendid... more