AGER , Francisco José

Not many manuscript maps have been the object of material analysis so far. A portolan chart, signed and dated by Juan Vespucci in 1520, was studied in this research, conserved at the Archivo General de Indias in Seville (Spain). It is made on parchment and depicts the coasts and islands of Europe and Africa. It is the oldest portolan chart made...

Francisco Pacheco (1564–1644) was one of the most important Spanish painters, the author of the famous treatise Art of Painting, and a founder of Seville art school. His painting La Inmaculada (1610) forms part of the important art collection in the Archbishop's Palace in Seville and represents the first realization of a new iconography,...

: The Archbishop's Palace of Seville harbours an important art collection with mostly works by great Renaissance and Baroque artists. However, the authorship of some paintings is unknown, and, in a few cases, there is an interest in discovering the painter due to the quality of the artwork. As a first step for this purpose, a systematic...

Juan Martínez Montañés was one of the most important sculptors and altarpiece architectsof the Spanish Golden Age. The restoration of the Santa Clara church in Seville has presented a unique opportunity to study the main altarpiece, crafted by Montañés between 1621 and 1623. He was also in charge of the polychromy and gilding, believing that...

El uso de técnicas analíticas y de imagen no invasivas/destructivas ha experimentado un crecimiento extraordinario en las últimas décadas en el ámbito del patrimonio cultural. En la actualidad, su uso en el estudio de los objetos de interés patrimonial podemos decir que se ha vuelto imprescindible. Desde los años 90 se ha realizado un...