Treasures from the House of Alba: 500 years of art and collecting

Contents

The glory of the Albas: a journey through the history of Europe / Fernando Checa -- The Alba family. Family sketches / Jacobo Siruela ; House of Alba family tree ; The glory of the Albas: five centuries of aristocratic collecting / Fernando Checa ; The Alba family and its archives: five centuries of history / José Manuel Calderón Ortega -- The Alba homes. The Alba family's palaces in Madrid: Liria and Buenavista / Carlos Sambricio ; Las Dueñas Palace in Seville / Vicente Lleó Cañal ; Monterrey Palace, Salamanca / Miguel Ángel Zalama -- Patrons and collectors. The Alba family in the poems of Garcilaso de la Vega / Rosa Navarro Durán ; Flemish tapestries of the Alba family / Miguel Ángel Zalama and María José Martínez Ruiz ; Empress Eugenia de Montijo: art of the second empire and the Alba family / Leticia Azcue Brea ; More than a collecting tradition in the twentieth century: Don Jacobo and Doña Cayetana de Alba / María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco with the collaboration of Blanca Uría Prado.