The dictatorship of Primo de Rivera during the final period of the reign of Alfonso XIII accelerated the internal rearrangements that the Granada economic elite had been experiencing since the end of the 19th century. The main taxpayers of the city went from being agrarian to merchants, industrialists and medical professionals. The fiscal policy ap...
In this paper we study a wooden sculpture that could have a genoese origin, relating it with models generated by Anton Maria Maragliano (1664-1739). It is an Inmculate belonging to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Virgen de las Angustias, previously attributed to the sculptor from Marseille Jean Michel Verdiguier (c. 1722-1796) and deposited in the c...
La proliferación de los talleres familiares de pintura en Granada a lo largo del siglo XVIII constituye un episodio fundamental en relación a la historia de la ciudad en el ámbito artístico. En este artículo reconstruimos, en base a información documental, cuáles eran los más relevantes y activos en esa centuria aportando referencias sobre algunos ...
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We will introduce one of the completely unknown episodes in the history of the Royal Chapel of Granada that took place during part of the 17th century. It deals with the conversion of Queen Isabel´s mirror-monstrance into a reliquary for an alleged nail of the cross of Christ, against the wishes of the royal chaplains. They would fight to convert i...
Princes Sa`d and Nasr were sons of the amir Muley Hacen and his second wife, Soraya. They were baptized as D. Fernando and D. Juan of Granada. Their mother as Dª Isabel of Granada. All their properties had almost been confiscated before 1492. The infantes and their mother tried to recover the family´s heritage without any succes. The eldest son of ...
Don Pedro de Castro´s burial-place is in a small and little-known chapel at the Sacromonte´s Church. Less known is the fact that, next to it, lies the corpse of his father don Cristóbal Vaca de Castro, the controversial governor of Peru, who had as one of his greatest wishes to perpetuate his memory thanks to the patronage of a burial chapel at a c...
En este artículo se explora la utilidad que pueden tener las medidas de centralidad espacial (tradicionalmente empleadas en entornos urbanos) en el contexto del paisaje rural. En concreto, se han calculado, sobre la red de caminos de la Vega de Granada, las medidas de alcance, cercanía, intermediación y rectitud, considerando dicha red de caminos c...
This paper deals with the study of the old road between Granada and Motril and the hostel- ries and inns that where located there during the 16th century. Particular attention is given to those hostelries located in Valle de Lecrín, a very travelled county within the Kingdom of Granada. Thus, in this text these road and the inns will be documented ...
This work is a first approximation to the study of a Granada source of the 16th century: the census or neighborhood of 1561, done parish to parish and by neighbors. I will try to show the first conclusions about the family and family structures of Granada in the mid-sixteenth century starting from social aspects such as the distribution of househol...
