España - History Lab https://historylab.es Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:40:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg España - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Velázquez: a brilliant painter in the service of Philip IV https://historylab.es/velazquez-a-brilliant-painter-in-the-service-of-philip-iv/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=velazquez-a-brilliant-painter-in-the-service-of-philip-iv Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:53:49 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/velazquez-un-pintor-genial-al-servicio-de-felipe-iv/ Short video clips about Velázquez and his work

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]]> Videoclips in which Velázquez’s pictorial career is dealt with very briefly. It also summarises another longer documentary on his life and work in the RNE Documentos collection, to which we refer to https://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/documentos-rne/documentos-rne-velazquez-pintor-genial-servicio-felipe-iv-08-12-18/4878613/. Special mention is made of his life and his relationship with the Court and the King, the support of the Monarch and the role played by the painter in creating an image of the Monarchy and power.

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]]> Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando https://historylab.es/royal-academy-of-fine-arts-of-san-fernando/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=royal-academy-of-fine-arts-of-san-fernando Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:41 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/real-academia-de-bellas-artes-de-san-fernando/ Online access to the collection of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid)

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]]> The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando conserves an exceptional heritage consisting of more than 1,500 paintings, 1,500 sculptures, 15,300 drawings, 35,000 prints, 2,000 photographs, as well as furniture, silver and goldsmith objects, porcelain, ceramics and other decorative arts. The Royal Academy of Fine Arts aims to “promote artistic creativity, as well as the study, dissemination and protection of the arts and cultural heritage, particularly painting, sculpture, architecture, music and the new image arts”.

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]]> Museum of Fine Arts of Seville https://historylab.es/museum-of-fine-arts-of-seville/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=museum-of-fine-arts-of-seville Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:41 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/museo-de-bellas-artes-de-sevilla/ Virtual visit to the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville

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]]> The Seville Museum of Fine Arts was founded as the “Museum of Paintings” by Royal Decree on 16 September 1835, with works from convents and monasteries confiscated by the liberal government of Mendizábal. This art gallery is considered to be one of the most important in Spain and through this interactive virtual tour we can easily and quickly access a large part of its permanent exhibitions of religious-themed paintings, mostly belonging to the Baroque style. It also has important works by Francisco Pacheco, Zurbarán and Murillo.
The building where the museum is located dates back to the beginning of the 17th century, built on the ancient remains of a Mudejar building, the design of which is attributed to the architect Juan de Oviedo.

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]]> Masters of the Baroque https://historylab.es/masters-of-the-baroque/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=masters-of-the-baroque Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:41 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/maestros-del-barroco/ Digital presentation of the masters of the Baroque at the Seville Museum of Fine Arts

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]]> The Seville Museum of Fine Arts was founded as the “Museum of Paintings” by Royal Decree on 16 September 1835, with works from convents and monasteries confiscated by the liberal government of Mendizábal. This art gallery is considered one of the most important in Spain and through this interactive virtual tour we can access in a comfortable and quick way to a large part of its permanent exhibitions on religious-themed paintings, mostly belonging to the Baroque style as a concept of life and at the same time expression of art. The following resource provides a digital presentation of the Baroque masters, highlighting well-known works by Francisco Pacheco, Zurbarán and Murillo.

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]]> Ferrol Shipbuilding Museum https://historylab.es/ferrol-shipbuilding-museum/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ferrol-shipbuilding-museum Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:41 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/museo-de-la-construccion-naval-de-ferrol/ Virtual visit to the Ferrol Shipbuilding Museum, where you can learn about the peculiarities of shipbuilding in the 18th century

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]]> The Museum of Naval Construction, located in the Herrerías building, has managed to maintain the architectural structure typical of the 18th century. The important thing to note is that it houses two floors dedicated to the history of shipbuilding. On the ground floor we can access the different construction techniques, where we can also see in more detail the operation and the different parts of a ship.
On this visit we can see the wreck of the Fragata Magdalena, sunk in the Vivero estuary in 1810 and recovered by the Navy between the 1970s and 1980s.
On the upper floor there are a series of themed rooms such as the one dedicated to the Astano shipyard, called “Miracle in the Estuary”. Other rooms are dedicated to the Navy, its Ships and its Schools; the Shipping Companies, the Ports, etc.

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]]> Royal Chapel of Granada https://historylab.es/royal-chapel-of-granada/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=royal-chapel-of-granada Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:41 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/capilla-real-de-granada/ Website of the Royal Chapel of Granada containing details of its history since its construction five centuries ago

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]]> The royal chapel of Granada, which was erected to preserve the remains of the Catholic Monarchs, was built in Gothic style between 1505 and 1517. The 16th century is the century of the chapel’s fullness, where the sobriety of the building is highlighted. Under Emperor Charles I it continued to flourish with all kinds of decorations. Today, the mark left by Queen Isabella, in a certain sense, marks the large number of visits that take place every year. On this website, users can access the history of the monument, as well as take a guided tour where they can see the different cultural contributions that the chapel has undergone over the last 500 years. This portal also contains complementary information on the Lonja, built in 1518 by the Granada City Council.

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]]> Bilbao Fine Arts Museum https://historylab.es/bilbao-fine-arts-museum/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bilbao-fine-arts-museum Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:41 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/museo-de-bellas-artes-de-bilbao/ Virtual visit to the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum through which we can enjoy masterpieces by renowned artists such as Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi, El Greco, Murillo, Zurbarán and Goya.

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]]> The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum and the Museum of Modern Art joined forces in 1945, the year in which the old building was erected. In the 1970s, an annex was added, which later, in 2001, was completed with the latest modifications to the building that we can visit today. Through the virtual visit we can approach the masterpieces of authors such as the 16th century German painter and designer of engravings Lucas Cranach the Elder, the Italian baroque painter Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi, El Greco, Murillo, Zurbarán and Goya, among many others.

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]]> The 18th century in Aragon https://historylab.es/the-18th-century-in-aragon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-18th-century-in-aragon Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:41 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/el-siglo-xviii-en-aragon/ Explanation of basic notions about the 18th century in Aragon through the online portal of the Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa (GEA)

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]]> The Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa (GEA) was first published in 1981, directed by Eloy Fernández Clemente. At the end of 2002, the digitalisation of its contents began and in 2003 the first version of the GEA Online was launched, with the collaboration of the Departments of Education and Science and Technology of the Government of Aragon. We access here to the History section of the Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa (GEA) online, to focus on the political, social, economic and cultural characteristics of the 18th century in Aragon. The topics are organised into blocks, some of them being: the Bourbons and the War of Succession, the promulgation of the Nueva Planta Treaties, the emergence of the Aragonese party around the figure of the Count of Aranda, the Aragonese Enlightenment, Baroque art, the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the nobility or the life of the most disadvantaged. In addition, the encyclopaedia contains some didactic sections such as revision tests, timelines, etc.

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]]> Weekly of agriculture and arts addressed to parish priests (1797-1808) https://historylab.es/weekly-of-agriculture-and-arts-addressed-to-parish-priests-1797-1808/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=weekly-of-agriculture-and-arts-addressed-to-parish-priests-1797-1808 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:35 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/semanario-de-agricultura-y-artes-dirigido-a-los-parrocos-1797-1808/ On-line access to the Agriculture and Arts Weekly for Pastors

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]]> The Royal Botanic Gardens Digital Library is an online resource providing free and open access to more than 7,500 publications from the early modern period to the present day. It contains an excellent digital collection based mainly on materials in the form of books, magazines, pamphlets and leaflets which have been previously digitised and which are mostly from the collection of the Library of the Royal Botanic Gardens. In this case, the Semanario de Agricultura y Artes addressed to the parish priests, created in 1797, aimed to inform in an updated way and through a newspaper-like format, of the advances and new techniques in the arts of Agriculture and Industry, both in Spain and internationally. Its target audience tended to be the peasantry and artisans.

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]]> Means of transport in the 16th and 17th centuries https://historylab.es/means-of-transport-in-the-16th-and-17th-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=means-of-transport-in-the-16th-and-17th-centuries Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:35 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/medios-de-transporte-en-los-siglos-xvi-y-xvii/ Access to the collaborative blog of IES Miguel Catalán to celebrate the IV Centenary of Miguel de Cervantes where the different means of transport in the 16th and 17th centuries are explained

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]]> Collaborative blog of IES Miguel Catalán to celebrate the IV Centenary of Miguel de Cervantes where different topics are explained. Among them, we have this short article about the different means of transport in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With the beginning in the 16th century of the post office service linking the places where the Spanish Court resided with the main European urban centres, this post office service was extended to other Spanish cities. The conditions of the terrain and other conditioning factors such as the capacity of the horses would play an important role in the development of what we can call the first “taxis” in history.

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