This article offers new interpretations for a number of drawings belonging to Francisco de Goya’s Album D or «Witches and Old Women Album» (1820-1823). Their study in connection with contemporary news and press articles evinces their links to the specific historical and cultural context within which they were produced and perceived. Their plurality of meanings becomes clearer when considered with regard to the social and political debates and controversies reported in the wealth of new publications emerging during the Liberal Triennium. This kind of analysis, focused on the drawings Nothing is known of this, He wakes up kicking, and on Goya’s depictions of «visions» and «nightmares», could help understand the creative process and the original use of his albums.

The convent of Santo Domingo of Inca is recognized as an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC). Despite the contemporary transformations it has undergone and the cultural use it maintains today, the image it projects continues to reflect its origin as a Dominican Foundation (1604-1835). Until now, very little was known about the initial configuration and evolution of the convent complex. This study documents the first buildings erected at the beginning of the 17th century and reconstructs their development with unpublished data from the original Dominican archive, largely lost. It provides a description of the extensive ceremonial carried out for the laying of the foundation stone of the current temple, which included folkloric elements that were not known in the town of Inca. All of this reflects the expansion of religious orders during the modern age and the context of the counter-Reformation Baroque. In addition, the evolution of the convent in the eighteenth century is explained, its transformation after the confiscation, the rehabilitation that turned it into the cultural center that it is today, and a stylistic interpretation of its fundamental elements is made.

The high level of constructive knowledge that military engineers had in Spain in the 18th and 19th centuries is well accredited, and it forms an important part of what we could call Enlightenment mechanics. One of the less ordinary chapters of this building work was the use of the pointed vault, called at that time “Gothic or ogival vault”, in the construction of gunpowder stores. This study aims to highlight the innovative spirit of such engineers, by revealing their effort to find new forms and typologies that would allow them to perfect and revolutionize the aforementioned architectural model. Different examples in the Hispanic sphere show that, compared to Vauban's prototype considered canonical, there were engineers who developed different proposals and that evolved from the warehouses built in Gibralfaro, San Fernando and Ceuta, to those that rise in the fortress of San Fernando de Figueras. The latter proves to be not only the most elaborate proposal for a warehouse with a pointed vault of the 18th century, but also the one that advances in its structure elements that will be definitively adopted in the following century, being, therefore, an antecedent of great relevance in this sense.

The Galician culture of the Spanish republican exile is the subject that this article intends to address, which aims to investigate the origins of the artistic imaginary developed in the diaspora, especially by the intelligentsia that arrived in Argentina. The figure of Castelao is taken as a reference because of the relevance it had in the conformation of an ideological and artistic corpus of great influence for the subsequent development, and that would be continued by Luis Seoane, his successor in the identity cultural commitment coming from Galicianism. The article investigates the main identity links of Galicia —in the Spanish Northwest—, emphasizing the importance of the Galician language, its defense, against its popular character, which had to be made visible and restored. Next, the Galician imaginary is analyzed from the visual source, while a comparison is made with respect to the rest of the peninsula, to demonstrate the corpus that is created there and that is linked to Castelao's speech in defense of the peculiarity that this part of the Iberian Peninsula has, presenting a problem when deciding what term to refer to the territorial set.

This article reveals a painting on onyx with the representation of the apostle Santiago in the Battle of Clavijo preserved in the Collegiate Museum of Daroca (Zaragoza). Likewise, the artistic characteristics of the piece and its iconography are analyzed in detail and, after comparison with his graphic and painting on stone, it is attributed to the circle of the Italian painter Antonio Tempesta (c. 1555-1630). Finally, Bishop Martín Terrer de Valenzuela (1549-1631) is proposed as its possible owner.

In the last 50 years, the History of Art has undergone a deep renewal that has entailed the expansion of both the typologies under study and the ways of approaching its scientific research, mainly based on the prominence given to the image and visual culture.
This article analyzes a type of artifact that has not usually been studied from the perspective of art history, but that has much to contribute to our current knowledge of the construction and reproduction of the figurative image in the Middle Ages: the wax seal. In this case, two imprints belonging to Gonzalo Pérez de Aguilar (ca. 1300-1353), bishop of Cuenca and Sigüenza and archbishop of Santiago de Compostela and Toledo, are studied; they combine the traditional figure of authority linked to the wax seal as an instrument of documentary validation, with innovations produced during the process of configuring individual identity, and its representation, in the Middle Ages.

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Galician Center for Contemporary Art, it has hosted Implosion: conceptual art in the CGAC collection (1965-1975), a project curated by Pedro de Llano Neira divided into two aspects: a first formalized through an exhibition, and a second organized around a didactic program made up of commented visits to the exhibition by the curator and a cycle of public debates aimed at reflecting on the collections put together by contemporary art museums in general and, in particular, about the CGAC collection. All of them, exercises designed to encourage the beginning of a new cycle in the institution, marked by the regeneration of its lines of action.

This article addresses the situation of art history in its social dimension precisely now, when it has become one of the most topics in digital audiovisual communication. Faced with the hyperabundance of audiovisual products dealing with art history, this article considers how this medium implies a series of transformations in the traditional modes of socialization of art history as a discipline halfway between the museum and the academia. In so doing, the crises that have plunged into our discipline will be raised, attending to cases that go beyond our own Spaniard geography.

To this end, the article approaches two essential television documentary series on the subject, Kenneth Clark's Civilisation (1969) and John Berger's Ways of Seeing (1972), contrasting the models, their consequences and the possibilities afforded by the new television medium. This will lead us to apply the conclusions extracted from the previous examples to the Spanish context, where the series Mirar un cuadro (1983-1988) will be the final focus of attention. How an innovative and path breaking art history can be developed in the audiovisual economy will be the concluding question of the study.

We propose in this text a panoramic vision of the transformations derived from the emergence of the digital era and the consequent mutation that this has implied on the nature of images in contemporary audiovisual production, transformed linguistically and aesthetically by the new supports on which they are articulated and characterized by an intermedial flow that will surpass their traditional representation frameworks, all of which will also modify our perception and reception of them. The pivots on which we will rely in our approach to the case study will be the performative register and the intermedial mesh of bodies that is formed in this new field, in which we will carry out a series of tastings (the silenced body, the menstruating body, the mastectomized body) prioritizing on this occasion the gender perspective.

I seek to understand the skill of looking, the solid basis of art history, but specifically the “how to” of it that we take too easily for granted. That looking leads to seeing is not obvious. In this article I develop a theoretical metaphor that is social, ethical, and visual, and can help art history in its mission. This is how it came to me. Once, on the street, I heard a man, of obviously foreign background, murmur to himself: “they don’t even look at me”. That was the moment when the seed of the short film embedded in this article was sown, and the theoretical metaphor of visibilisation came up. The consequence of this not looking and not talking in some sort of engagement with him, is that he radically does not belong, is not part of, the group within which he exists physically – the crowd.