During his tour around the Peninsula, nowhere was the Duke received with greater enthusiasm than in Cordoba. Seven carriages full of noblemen accompanied the governor, Don Cristóbal Núñez y Escobar, to wait for his arrival halfway between Córdoba and Alcolea.
When eventually the ducal retinue leaves Madrid, it carries with it the farewell gifts with which the heir of Tuscany has been presented by the king and his mother. Among them, the one that most impresses the Italians would not
Among the many visits to churches that the duke, moved not only by his artistic interest, but especially by his pious nature, has the opportunity to visit during the long month of his stay in Madrid, stands out as especially
Before leaving the Buen Retiro Palace, the Duke and his courtiers visited the theater, where so many masterpieces by Lope, Tirso or Calderón had their premiere in the time of Philip IV, who was as enthusiastic about the scene as
A notorious example that Magalotti’s interests were directed more to the scientific field than to the aesthetic one is the short-sightedness that he shows when narrating the journey of the Duke and his entourage through El Buen Retiro Park, where
The visit of Cosme III to the palace and gardens of El Buen Retiro was also enlivened by a boat ride through the large pond and the canals with which the engineers under the Count-Duque had turned the arid original
The second royal portrait is the equestrian sculpture of Philip IV, signed by Pietro Tacca, a Florentine artist, well-known by the learned courtiers of Cosimo III. In the History of Art, this work stands out for having been the first
Among the sculptures Cosimo III and his courtiers had occasion to contemplate in Madrid, there stand out two equestrian portraits linked to the Medici family, since they are gifts from the father and grandfather of the duke to the kings
When the Duke’s retinue arrived in Madrid, bad winds were blowing for the Court. The favour dispensed by the regent to her confessor, the Jesuit Nithard, was arousing rejection among the supporters of Don Juan Jose de Austria, already declared
On December 12th, Lourdes Morales, Secretary at the District Council and one of our student’s mother, invited us to share our European Projects with the District Council members. At the meeting we explained the different European projects we are involved