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Beatriz Blasco Esquivias
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3785-2659
No 22 (2023), Subject: Daedalus' travels: artists and cultural exchanges
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/quintana.22.9077
Submitted: 08-03-2023 Accepted: 08-03-2023 Published: 25-04-2023
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Abstract

Bacon's empiricism and Descartes' desire for experimentation encouraged travel during the Modern Age, either as a form of scientific and artistic knowledge encouraged by the development of optical instruments or as part of the process of learning and consolidation of artists. Despite the inconvenience of transport, the precariousness of road networks and the dangers of travel, men and women often left their place of origin in search of a job opportunity or because of it, transferring from one place to other experiences that enriched both bearers and receivers alike. In addition to some knowledge journeys, this article analyses the impact that the presence of foreign artists had on the Spanish court. Under the Bourbons, this influx became a strategy to annul the memory of the Habsburgs and bring about a change in taste that would lead to the Enlightenment.