The armouries were among the most significant visual and symbolic manifestations of the nobility’s elevated social position, alongside palaces, chapels, cabinet rooms, and libraries. The study of Aristocratic Culture necessitates a focus on arms, reflecting the nobility’s traditional military function. Beyond the topic of arms and letters, understanding this distinct culture requires examining armouries as a critical interpretative key to social order and status. These served as demonstrations of a lineage’s antiquity, prestige, importance, and worth, playing a vital role in the visual performance of this dominant social stratum. This collection of essays provides the first panoramic view of this subject, developed within the Spanish and broader European contexts, addressing the content, uses, formation, chronology, meaning, and significance of such sets of objects.
Armouries were among the most prominent symbolic-visual elements of the nobility in the Early Modern Age. This book presents the first comprehensive study of a phenomenon as prominent as it is overlooked in Aristocratic Culture, focusing on the Spanish case.
Table of contents - Hispanic Noble Armouries: Forms, Meanings and
Overview - Spanish Noble Armouries in the Modern Age: Typologies and Legacies
- The Architecture for the Armouries in Spain in the Early Modern Age -
Contextualization of Noble Spanish Armories from a Broader European
Perspective: The Case of Armory of the Dukes of Pfalz-Neuburg at Neuburg
Castle on the Danube - The Armoury of Teodósio I, 5th Duke of Bragança - The
Armoury of The Counts of Benavente - Arms in the House of Alba: a Brief Story
of Functionalism - The Armoury of the Constables of Castile: a Representative
Example of a Seventeenth-Century Noble Castilian Armoury - Around the Year
1600: the Medinaceli and Lerma Armouries - Noble Arms and Armouries in
Hispanic America: Image, Collection, and Society - Spanish Noble Armories in
American Museums and the Case of Dos Aguas - The Kernoozer's Club and the
Establishment of the Instituto de Valencia de Don Juan - Documentary Appendix
Roberto González Ramos is a researcher in Visual and Symbolic Culture of Nobility, with a broad perspective focusing on the education and practice of Arts within the Aristocratic milieu of the Early Modern Age. His work also extends to Collectionism and the display of objects as symbolic representations of Nobility.Roberto González Ramos, is a researcher on Visual and Symbolic Culture of Nobility in a broad perspective, especially on education and practice of Arts in the Aristocratic milieu of the Early Modern Age, and on Collectionism and display of objects as symbolic representation of Nobility.
Jesús M. Ruiz Carrasco has focused his research interests on Architecture and its relationship with Nobility. He has published several texts on Architecture as an aristocratic symbol of status, as well as on Collections in 18th Century Spain.Jesús M. Ruiz Carrasco has centered his researching interests in Architecture and its relationship with Nobility, and published several texts on Architecture as aristocratic symbol of status, as well as on Collections in 18th Century Spain.
Carlos Ramírez Raya participates in a research group centered on Collectionism and Armouries of the Spanish nobility. He has served as the secretary of an International Congress on the subject.Carlos Ramírez Raya, participates in the Researching group centered in Collectionism and Armouries of the Spanish nobility, and have actuated as a secretary of an International Congress on the subject.
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