Imágenes, nobleza y transformación cultural. Evolución de la posesión de pinturas, esculturas y tapices de tres generaciones de la casa ducal del Infantado (1531-1566)

Abstract

This study discusses the collection of artworks at the House of the Dukes of the Infantado, a subject that is interestingin itself, given the dukedom’s status as one of the most important in sixteenth-century Castile. Furtherinterest is raised, however, by the fact that the paper considers both the objects that make up the collection(paintings, sculptures and tapestries, etc) and the extent to which their acquisition is indicative of a knowledgeand adoption of modern-Renaissance cultural models on the part of the collection’s owners. The paper also providesa comparative study that aims to assess the manner in which the acquisition of artworks in the sixteenthcentury by the first three generations of the dukes of the Infantado evolved.