The Palacio de Liria is, after the Royal Palace, the most important eighteenth-century building particularly Madrid. The architecture introduced in the city's new neoclassical taste, which, although it had been opened in Spain by the Royal Palace and La Granja, in Liria has a mark near the stylistic debates Parisians of the time. The palace was completed in 1785; two years later, William Beckford praised him as "the most splendid of Madrid."
But beyond its architectural excellence that is truly enhances a palace that houses the art collection, and thick granite walls guarding centuries a remarkable collection of paintings from the Italian, Flemish and Spanish schools Fray Angelico, Palma old, Titian, Guido Reni, Rembrandt, Rubens, Brueghel de Velours, Ribera, Murillo, Velázquez, and so on, to which must be added valuable document collections, such as logbooks of Christopher Columbus or the autograph will of Felipe II, and books such as the Bible miniada fifteenth century. A huge cultural legacy with more than six centuries of history.
However, until now there was no publication on the palace. This edition comes to fill this gap and provides literature, with a rich visual documentation of the architecture, gardens, paintings, tapestries, books and manuscripts of the palace, a solvent and full joint investigation conducted by a select group of historians Art that merely finds the foundational character of this work for future research.