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THE SPANISH SERIES
ROYAL PALACES OF SPAIN
THE SPANISH SERIES
EDITED BY
ALBERT F. CALVERT
| Goya Toledo Madrid Seville Murillo Cordova El Greco Velazquez Cervantes The Prado The Escorial Royal Palaces of Spain Spanish Arms and Armour Granada and the Alhambra Leon, Burgos, and Salamanca Valladolid, Oviedo, Segovia, Zamora, Avila, and Zaragoza |
| In preparation— |
| Galicia Sculpture in Spain Cities of Andalucia Murcia and Valencia Tapestries of the Royal Palace Catalonia and Balearic Islands Santander, Viscaya, and Navarre |
ROYAL PALACES
OF SPAIN
ACCOUNT OF THE SEVEN PRIN-
CIPALPALACES OF THE SPANISH
KINGS, WITH 164 ILLUSTRA-
TIONS.BY ALBERT F. CALVERT
LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMIX
Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty
PREFACE
Since despotism has been replaced by constitutional rule the divinitythat doth hedge a King has shed something of its significance, but thestaunchest republican will admit that there is at least a certainpicturesqueness about royalty; and the interest attaching to a crownedhead naturally extends to the ancestral homes of majesty. Spain isunusually rich in ‘cloud-capped towers and gorgeous palaces,’ many ofwhich have been the scenes of stirring and momentous events in herhistory. On the gloomy pile of the Escorial—worthier of an EgyptianPharaoh—Philip II....