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A Palace for a King
The Buen Retiro, a royal retreat and pleasure palace, was built for Philip IV on the outskirts of Madrid in the 1630s. With its superb display of paintings by Vel zquez and other contemporary artists, the palace became a showcase for the art and culture of Spain's Golden Age. A Palace for a King, first published in 1980, provides a pioneering total history of the construction, decoration, and uses of a major royal palace, emphasising the relationship of art and politics at a critical moment in European history. produced on different aspects of the history of the palace and its decoration since the 1970s. A number of new, unpublished illustrations have been added, and many of the plates are now reproduced in colour. The publication of this edition gains added importance from the fact that plans for the expansion of the Prado Museum include the restoration of the Hall of Realms to approximate its original appearance, as reconstructed in this volume.
Voicing Dissent in Seventeenth-Century Spain
Although the Spanish Inquisition looms large in many conceptions of the early modern Hispanic world, relatively few studies have been made of the Spanish state and Inquisition’s approach to book censorship in the seventeenth century. Merging archival and rare book research with a case study of the fiction of Baltasar Gracián, this book argues that privileged authors, like the Jesuit Gracián, circumvented publication strictures that were meant to ensure that printed materials conformed to the standards of Catholicism and supported the goals of the absolute monarchy. In contrast to some elite authors who composed readily transparent critiques of authorities and encountered difficulties with the state and Inquisition, others, like Gracián, made their criticisms covertly in complicated texts like El Criticón.
City Maps Leganes Spain
City Maps Leganes Spain is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Attractions, pubs, bars, restaurants, museums, convenience stores, clothing stores, shopping centers, marketplaces, police, emergency facilities are only some of the places you will find in this map. This collection of maps is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this map be part of yet another fun Leganes adventure :)
Del 1640 al 1705
En aquest llibre, i a diferència de la tesi sostinguda per Ferran Soldevila i Pierre Vilar, que ha estat seguida per molts altres historiadors, s'interpreta i es documenta que el sentit polític que defineix centralment, per part catalana, els xocs de 1640 i 1705 és essencialment el mateix: tractar d'assegurar la integritat i la continuïtat del règim d'autogovern propi en el marc d'un model d'estat de tipus constitucionalista. La incardinació en el joc de la política internacional europea seria en el 1640 per intentar frenar les escomeses del reformisme absolutista d?Olivares, i en el 1705 per procurar recuperar el terreny perdut en l?autogovern d?ençà 1652. En aquest sentit l?aposta catalana de 1705 tindria un horitzó «sobiranista català» i l?objectiu seria afermar les llibertats del sistema pactista. A partir d?aquí s?hi podia bastir un marc polític i institucional propi que fos capaç de donar sortida a les energies i al dinamisme d?una economia en expansió.
Empires and Entrepots
The confrontation between Spain and the Dutch Republic was a key factor in European and world history. In this collection, Jonathan Israel explores the various aspects of this many-sided struggle, at the level of government policy, military strategy and diplomacy; and in respect of the differing fortunes of regions, towns and groups, and the Sephardic Jews.
