Poder sobre ruedas: coches y carrozas de la nobleza en el Madrid de Felipe III y Felipe IV (1600-1650)
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: To highlight their power, nobility of Modern Age used many means to display their social status. Personal properties such as coaches and carriages were essential pillars of wealth. Many of these structures possessed an immense artistic value and nobles used to showcased them in the streets of Madrid. Several documents, localized in the Archivo Histórico Provincial de Madrid, will be analyzed. Through the documents of construction descriptions, the importance of these structures in the nobility status will be studied in more detail. Besides, some dates about the artists who built vehicles will be added.
Source: Trocadero
Author: José Manuel Ortega Jiménez
Institution: University of Almería
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7124140501