These coins were campaign coinage, possibly issued as a result of the first entry of Alfonso the Battler into Toledo as King of Castile.
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The ARQUA collections house an interesting steatite carving of Shou Lao or the Elder of the South Pole, the Chinese god of longevity, found in Cartagena in the 1920s. Very popular in China during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) dynasties, this deity usually forms part of a triad of stellar gods of luck. In this case it is a simple piece which, unlike other representations of this divinity in Spanish museums, speaks of everyday life and allows us to glimpse the area’s relations with East Asia through the mystery of its origin.
Antonio de Alloytiz was the most outstanding architect of the altarpiece during the 17th century in Vizcaya, to which his knowledge of the sculptural style of Gregorio Fernández and his contacts with the altarpiece architect Pedro de la Torre contributed. We study his relationship with Torre and other court architects such as Bernabé Cordero and the Jesuit Francisco Bautista, his numerous trips to the court, where his business dealings led him to buy and sell a chapel in the convent of Santo Domingo el Real, acting as an intermediary in the context of a complex lawsuit. We also attribute to him two works conserved in museums and related to Madrid for different reasons, a monstrance from the Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art in Bilbao, which belonged to the disappeared main altarpiece of the parish church of Ochandiano, and an Immaculate Conception in the National Archaeological Museum, possibly from an altar in the church of Gordejuela.
This article deals, with a didactic intention, with the evolutionary study of writing during the medieval centuries in Christian Spain, up to the Modern Age, with reference to some pieces preserved in the collection of the National Archaeological Museum, analysing their essential characteristics, from a palaeographic point of view, and explaining the different cycles that developed, the historical and social context in which they arose, the causes that influenced the different forms of writing, including the writing materials, giving an overall view of the use of writing in the Middle Ages, and explaining the different cycles that developed, the historical and social context in which they arose, the causes that influenced the different forms of writing, including the written materials, giving an overall view of the use of writing in this period, as a cultural expression and testimony of human activity.
When speaking of the Treasure of León, the Treasure of the Royal Basilica of San Isidoro is implicitly understood, even though the cathedral has another treasure of great interest.
Francis Wormald’s research on the libellus (libelli in plural) introduced scholars to the illustrated lives of saints produced in pre-Romanesque France and Germany.
The Federico Marés Museum has among its rich collection a work that is representative of Gothic sculpture in Toledo from the last quarter of the 14th century. This is the sepulchral monument of Don Pedro Suárez de Toledo, a member of two of the most powerful families who played an important role in the political life of the 14th and 15th centuries.
The concern to find means to make evident that which is not evident can be considered one of the historical constants of human thought. In pursuit of this aspiration, man has always striven to reach the unperceivable by means of what is manifest, and in this way he has come to elaborate complex systems of signs whose primary purpose is the communication of ideas and feelings.
This article presents the collection of late medieval and Renaissance amulets with magic squares from the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid, virtually unpublished to date. The planetary amulets depict various Greco-Roman deities syncretised with Hebrew angels (e.g. Venus-Anael or Jupiter Satchiel). The backs are occupied by magic squares, each symbolising the corresponding planet through a numerical combination. The pentagon amulets show on the obverse the face of Christ inserted in this geometrical figure. Their reverses are again occupied by magic squares, although the numerical values have been replaced by variations of the Name of God in Hebrew letters. This set offers an interesting insight into little-studied beliefs and practices that combine Renaissance symbolism, Hebrew tradition and classical heritage.
The purpose of this work is to approach the religious mentality, beliefs and devotions through the study of the iconography applied to the sepulchres of the clergy, which as a whole constitute one of the fundamental sources of knowledge of late medieval spirituality. The choice of the Burgos area is due to the consideration that the most interesting collection in Castile is preserved there, both in terms of quantity and quality, and for this reason, knowledge of it can be useful, and also suggestive for establishing comparisons with other centres of activity in the Peninsula.
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