American painting collection of the duke Palata, viceroy of Peru

Authors

  • Ismael Jiménez Jiménez Universidad de Sevilla

Keywords:

Art collecting, Collections of paintings, private collections, Navarra y Rocafull, Melchor de, Duke of La Palata

Abstract

Don Melchor de Navarra y Rocafull, Duke of La Palata, immersed in the cultural forms of nobility in the second half of the seventeenth century, used his nomination as viceroy of Peru to become owner of a large collection of paintings and engravings. This gallery, which has not survived until today, was composed almost exclusively of American productions, as it is documented by the records of the General Archive of The Indies (Seville); but the death of the Duke in trip back to Spain left open important questions about this collection as if it would be intended for decoration of his residence or whether there was a commercial operation.

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Author Biography

Ismael Jiménez Jiménez, Universidad de Sevilla

Departamento de Historia de América. Universidad de Sevilla

Published

2014-12-01

How to Cite

Jiménez Jiménez, I. (2014). American painting collection of the duke Palata, viceroy of Peru. Cuadernos De Arte De La Universidad De Granada, 45, 113–128. Retrieved from https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/caug/article/view/4857

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