Culture and Art Policies at the Hispanic Court in the 16th century

Abstract

   The extraordinary issues of journals ebable the development of studies that have only been explored briefly in previous works. This is true even when dealing with an argument, as in this case, that has long been addressed by historiography. Above all, now, it is at risk of being abandoned due to the false belief that we already know enough about these topics, when in reality it is awaiting new questions that will complete a historical reality that has not been fully reconstructed. This issue of the journal Philostrato, titled Culture and Artistic Politics at the 16th-Century Spanish Court, offers new material and reflections on the subject. These include research lines on spaces, networks, shared and inherited knowledge, experimentation, and the travel of artistic models between courts and distant geographies, but above all, topics of interest such as emulation, artistic deployment, architectural promotion, and the accumulation of cultural and political capital.