Legal protection and management of Historic-Artistic Heritage during the Second Republic (1931-1939)

Abstract

The aim of this article is to offer a unitary vision of the legal regime and management of heritage along the Second Republic in Spain. Not only does it analyze in depth the most important laws of protection of the period, as the republican law of 1933 and its backgrounds, but also those other orders, instructions and provisions that completed the legal regime of heritage. It also gives an extensive approach to the administrations and institutions that had the competences on protection of heritage and their organic evolution, deepening especially in the changes they suffered and in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts situation. In this way it offers a complete lecture of the republican cultural model and the historic and politic circumstances that conditioned the complicated administration of heritage during the Second Republic.