Cantabrian the Caribbean, funded by the Fundación Carolina: the main findings of the research project and Indian Art patronage meet in this volume. On its pages a long list of artists, viceroys, lineages, burghers, merchants, military, religious or officials, and l showing prominent role of transoceanic migrants in promoting the art of modern and contemporary eras in Spain and America. This Indian heritage, raised or acquired capital treasured American soil, is eloquent testimony to a long voyage that begins with the first builders who accompanied Columbus on his voyages and reaches the first decades of the twentieth century with the "age of gold "of Indian patronage promoted by the mass return of capital caused by the colonial crisis. During those four centuries the dream of "making the Americas' pushed the overseas exodus of thousands of Spanish immigrants, seeking a fortune in the Peninsula was dodging them. The few who reached success often become stale sought a close ancestry imitating the customs and manners of the upper classes and, above all, flaunted his wealth and lavish spending with bulging artistic or philanthropic promotions that were transformed into images of power reached. That ostentation excited the desire to emigrate in younger, so the loop is closed and the Indian life cycle began again.