5. Power and powers in the history of Europe: oligarchies, political participation and democracy.

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Royal sigilography in the National Archaeological Museum

Catalog and commentary of the real stamps of the MAN. Chronology from Fernando III to Fernando VII

December 1, 2022

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The MAN during the Revolutionary Sexennium (1868-1874)

In any revolutionary period it is possible to establish an interrelation between cultural changes -or rather, of cultural politics- and the phenomena of political change. The materialization of this principle is even more evident in the period between 1868-1874, all the more so since it is precisely one of the specific features of the liberal progressivism of the 19th century bourgeoisie, desire, enunciated as an ideological principle, to liberalize the world of culture and put it at the service of greater social participation.

December 1, 2022


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Don Juan de Solórzano Pereira and his patronage of the main chapel of the monastery of Caballero de Gracia in Madrid

The biography of the famous jurist Don Juan de Solórzano Pereira is well known, but not so much his relationship with artistic issues. We examine the goods that he possessed, among which there were numerous objects from the Indies, and we present new aspects of his patronage of the main chapel of the Madrid monastery of Caballero de Gracia.

December 1, 2022

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The illustrated utopia of a fortified island

The old Isla Plana, off the coast of Alicante and Santa Pola, has long been an insular enclave valued both for its geographical position and for the wealth of fish in its surrounding waters. However, it remained uninhabited until the last third of the 18th century, when an ambitious project for a military stronghold and civil colonization of the island was promoted, in accordance with the reformist philosophy of the Spanish Enlightenment in the time of King Carlos III. , halfway between utopia and reality. That project would be known as Nueva Tabarca, in memory of the origin of its first settlers. Two characters were key in its configuration and development: the former captain general of Valencia and later president of the Council of Castilla, the Count of Aranda, and the military engineer, Infantry Colonel Fernando Méndez de Rao Sotomayor.

December 1, 2022

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The Spain of the Habsburgs

Video of the permanent exhibition of the National Archaeological Museum. Modern Age Area

December 1, 2022

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Lepanto 450 years: the highest occasion the ages have seen

On the occasion of the commemoration of the 450th anniversary of the triumph of the Spanish troops in the Battle of Lepanto, this day aims to highlight one of the most important events in modern naval history. The two most powerful navies of their time, the Turkish-Ottoman and the one known as the Holy League, faced each other in an all-out battle for control of the Mediterranean. An unparalleled event, a source of inspiration for the arts and literature, and which Miguel Cervantes himself, who participated as a soldier, defined as ‘the highest occasion that the ages have seen’.

December 1, 2022



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Pedro Dávila y Zúñiga, 1st Marquis of Las Navas. Artistic patronage and antiquarian collecting in the courts of Charles V and Philip II

Pedro Dávila y Zúñiga (1498-1567), 1st Marquis of Las Navas, was a prominent figure in the courts of Charles V and Philip II; in the words of Manuel Gómez-Moreno, a ‘champion of the Renaissance’.
This study brings together his many personal and artistic relationships within the framework of the cosmopolitan Hispanic court and through a lifetime of travels. His humanist interests materialised in his library and his antiquarian collection, of which the National Archaeological Museum possesses nine Roman pieces from the Magalia castle-palace in Las Navas del Marqués and two Vettones boars from the Dávila palace in Ávila. In addition, this institution holds the funerary tombstone of the 1st Marquises of Las Navas, the main work of art commissioned by Pedro Dávila, which raises the idea of love post mortem in a virtuoso literary and iconographic exercise on true friendship, conjugal love and the rites of marriage.

December 1, 2022

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