Image of the vault of the Hall of Kingdoms where scenes from military history and the Thirty Years’ War are depicted from the perspective of the Spanish Monarchy
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Popular architecture. Photograph of a cistern used for the collection and conservation of water during the Middle and Modern Ages.
View of the Buen Retiro Palace, which was ordered to be built around 1634, among other reasons, as a venue for the new courtly pomp and circumstance favoured by the Count-Duke of Olivares.
Popular architecture. Photograph of a masonry staircase used to access a chamber in a perched house, located in Encina Hermosa, near Lezuza (Albacete)
Customs and daily life at the Court of Charles III
Depiction of servile customs extrapolated from the New Testament scenes
Representation of the Victory of Fleurus, which forms part of the Military History and the Thirty Years’ War fought by the Spanish Monarchy. The victories were commemorated on various canvases in the Salón de Reinos of the Buen Retiro Palace
Representation of the relief of Constanza Square, which forms part of the Military History and the Thirty Years’ War waged by the Spanish Monarchy, whose victories were commemorated on various canvases in the Salón de Reinos of the Buen Retiro Palace
Representation of the defence of Cadiz against the English, which forms part of the Military History and the Thirty Years’ War waged by the Spanish Monarchy, whose victories were commemorated on various canvases in the Salón de Reinos of the Buen Retiro Palace
Representation of the recovery of Bahía de Todos los Santos, a work that forms part, along with others, of the commemoration of a series of land and naval victories that smiled on the armies of the Hispanic Monarchy during the first period of the Thirty Years’ War (1621-30). These canvases were intended for the Salón de Reinos at the Buen Retiro Palace.
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