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.
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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.
Among the several hundred specimens that make up the MAN’s Sigillography Collection, and which are still under study, we highlight the set of papal bulls, which, numbering seventy-seven, made it advisable to publish them as a monograph.
These coins were campaign coinage, possibly issued as a result of the first entry of Alfonso the Battler into Toledo as King of Castile.
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.
It has often been assumed that the origin of the population in the Sierra de Guadarrama had to do with the logging of the forest. However, the analysis of the documentation in this article demonstrates that such permanent settlement had to do with pastoralism, resulting in the repeated construction of resources that still exist and are awaiting in-depth study.
To speak of Silos and Limoges is to consider a fundamental chapter in the history of enamelling in medieval times.
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