That's how it was...Series of conferences: Ladies and gentlemen of the palaces of Madrid

Maria Victoria Lopez Cordon Cortezo es Professor of Modern History at the Complutense University. Honorary Professor UCM. He has directed 22 doctoral theses, as well as different memoirs and degree projects. Responsible for and participant in various research projects on society, politics and Spanish intellectual life in the XNUMXth century, she has been an incited professor at different foreign centers, especially at L 'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, the Universitá degli Studi Roma Tre and Harvard University. Likewise, in parallel she has been working on the social condition of women and, especially, on the evolution and institutional role of the queens and their courtly environment and the life and texts of eighteenth-century writers. 

Along these lines, his publications include, Female condition and enlightened reason. Josefa Amar y Borbón, Zaragoza, University Presses, 2005; Madame de Staël, Reflections on the process of a queen, ed. introduction and notes MV López-Cordón, Madrid, Ed. Abada, 2006; "Les relations familiales en Espagne au XVIIe siècle: perspectives d'analyse" in Dixseptième siècle, vol. 244/3, 2009, pp. 409-434 "Mother queens, daughter queens: education, politics and correspondence in the eighteenth-century courts" in History and Politics. Ideas, processes and social movements, vol. 31, 2014, pp. 49-80 “Between Witina and Julia: the intellectual journey of María Josefa Amalia de Sajonia” in MD Gimeno Puyol and E. Viamonte Lucientes coord.  The Travels of Reason. Blanco, Zaragoza, Fernando el Católico Institution, 2015; "The Palatine Mirror or the Ladies' Mesh: Courteous Sociability or Political Culture?" in Manuel Reyes García Hurtado, ed. The eighteenth century in feminine. Women in the Age of Enlightenment, Madrid, Synthesis, 2016; "Mariana Victoria of Portugal: an Infanta and many letters" in Pedralbes: magazine of modern history nº 36, 2016, pp.17-53; "Regards sur les femmes de l'Ancien Régime (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles: influential femmes, femmes de pouvoir" in Mercè Boixareu, dir. Figures fémenines de l'histoire occidentale dans la littérature française, Paris, Honoré Champion 2016; "Situating Women in the Society of the Old Regime: the Other Spanish Enlightenment" in Silvia Bermudez, Roberta Johnson, eds. A new history of Iberian Feminisms, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2018; “Mariana de Austria, a cyclical history” in Women at the Court of the Habsburgs: a social, cultural, religious and political network,  coord. M. Leticia Sánchez, 2019, Madrid, pp. 391-447.

Miguel Lasso of the Vega Zamora He is a Doctor of Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Extraordinary Doctorate Award, whose doctoral thesis was published by the Madrid City Council and the Caja Madrid Foundation. It has more than sixty publications, including books, chapters and articles, highlighting the scientific coordination of the book Palaces of Madrid, promoted by the Community of Madrid and the Caja Madrid Foundation in 2010, COAM 2011 Award. Responsible for the Historical Service of the Official College of Architects of Madrid (2002-2011) and director of the Architecture Institute of the same body (2008-2011). 

He is an elected member of the Institute of Madrid Studies, full professor of Architecture History and Deputy Director of the School of Architecture, Engineering and Design of the European University of Madrid.

Miguel Angel López-Morell (Huelva, 1971) has a degree in Geography and History from the University of Seville and a Doctor in History from the University of Seville with a thesis on the investments and financial activities of the Rothschild House in Spain. Specialized in business and financial history. He is the author of five books and more than forty publications of international rank. 

He has been a visiting researcher at Harvard University and the Frank Cass Business School in London and a professor at the University of Seville. Since 2008 he is a full professor of economic history at the University of Murcia. He is also deputy editor of the magazine Investigations in Economic History and member of the Editorial Board of the Geological and Mining Bulletin. He is an evaluator of the State Program for Knowledge Generation R&D Projects and a dozen international magazines.

In 1999 he was awarded the Youth Scholar Prize of the European Association for Banking History and in 2010 with the Paper Prize of the 14th Conference of the European Business History Association. In his doctorate he was a fellow of the Fundación Caja Madrid and the Banco de España.

Member of the Academic Committee of the European Association for Banking and Financial History and the Mare Nostrum Chair of Family Business. 

Monica Luengo Añón es Graduate in Art History from the Faculty of Geography and History of the Complutense University of Madrid. • Landscaper • 1998-2006 President of the International Scientific Committee for Cultural Landscapes ICOMOS-IFLA • Member of the Institute of Madrid Studies and of the Scientific Committee of l'Institut Européen de Jardins et Paysages.

es Graduate in Art History from the Faculty of Geography and History of the Complutense University of Madrid. • Landscaper • 1998-2006 President of the International Scientific Committee for Cultural Landscapes ICOMOS-IFLA • Member of the Institute of Madrid Studies and of the Scientific Committee of l'Institut Européen de Jardins et Paysages.

He has participated in numerous national and international congresses and seminars with classes, courses and conferences on Cultural Landscapes and Historic Gardens and has collaborated with universities in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, Argentina, Mexico, Costa Rica, China, Japan , etc. and directed the master in Cultural and Natural Heritage at the International University of Andalusia. 

Consultant for World Heritage applications. It has carried out joint evaluations, reports and missions with the World Heritage Center. He has coordinated the candidacy for World Heritage of The Paseo del Prado and the Retiro, landscape of the Arts and Sciences in Madrid

Research and work topics: Historical gardens, Restoration, methodology and management of historical gardens; Gardens of Spain, El Capricho de la Alameda de Osuna, Madrid Gardens; Cultural landscapes: Conservation and management, International legislation, Cultural landscapes and World Heritage; Inventory, conservation and management of cultural landscapes, Landscapes and heritage.

Publications (selec): Artistic gardens of Spain (Espasa Calpe), Gardens in Espagne (South Acts), The Whim of the Alameda de Osuna (Madrid City Council - Madrid City Council Award), Unique gardens (Lunwerg), Garden and romanticism (ed. Community of Madrid), Chapters on baroque and landscaped gardens in Parameters of the Spanish garden (Ministry of Culture), Garden guide from Spain , for the Institute of Tourism of Spain, as well as numerous articles on gardens and cultural landscapes.

Carries out the historical memory and inventory of historical gardens for the Patronage of Gardens of the Ministry of Culture (1980), and participates as a member of the research and coordination team in the exhibitions Madrid Classic Gardens(1981), Winthuysen, gardener(1986), Felipe II, the intimate king. Garden and nature in the XNUMXth century, (1998) Deputy curator of the exhibition The Melibea Garden (1999). He has organized and directed summer courses, conferences and seminars.

Founding partner of ATP, Arquitectura, Territorio y Paisaje, SL (1990) landscaping studio, specialized in cultural landscapes, restoration of historical gardens as well as projects for public parks and private gardens.

Ismael Gutierrez Pastor He is a doctor in Geography and History, Art History (1987) and Professor of Art History in the corresponding Department of the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has specialized in the study of Spanish painting from the 2019th to the XNUMXth centuries, on which he has published several books and numerous articles. His most recent research project has revolved around the figure of José Moñino, count of Floridablanca, shown at the exhibition held in Murcia between January and April XNUMX.

Emilio La Parra Lopez es Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History (University of Alicante). He has taught as Visiting Professor at the Universities of Aix-Marseille (1993-94 and 1998-1999) and François Rabelais de Tours (2005-2006). Director of the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library (2000-2005). Corresponding member of the Royal Academy of History. Doctor Honoris Causa from the Université d'Aix-Marseille (2011).

Responsible for Alicante of the Réseau Euro-Méditerranéen des Centers de Recherche en Sciences Humaines sur l'Aire Méditerranéenne (IV European Framework). Principal investigator of four research projects, of national call, dedicated to the Spanish monarchy in the 2002th and 2012th centuries. He has participated, as a researcher, in three other projects of national call. Member of the consolidated research teams of the University of Alicante: "Spain in the 2012th century", years XNUMX-XNUMX and "Contemporary Spain", years since XNUMX (in force).

His research has focused on cultural political history in the transit of the s. XVIII to XIX. His books include:

• Freedom of the press in the Cortes of Cádiz, Valencia, Nau Llibres, 1984.
• The first liberalism and the Church. The Cortes de Cádiz, Alicante, Juan Gil-Albert Institute of Culture, 1985.
• Godoy's alliance with the revolutionaries. Spain and France in the late eighteenth century, Madrid, Higher Council for Scientific Research, 1992.
• The Regent Gabriel Ciscar. Science and politics in romantic Spain, Madrid, 1995. Manuel Godoy. The adventure of power, Barcelona, ​​Tusquets, 2002 (2nd ed. In 2005),  The Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis. The decline of the first liberal impulse in Spain, Madrid, Synthesis, 2007.
• Fernando VII. A wanted and hated king, Barcelona, ​​Tusquets, 2018, Comillas Prize 2018.

José Antonio Vigara Zafra He is a Contracted Professor of the Department of Art History at UNED, where he has been teaching and researching since July 2007. He was trained at the University of Córdoba and at the UNED in Madrid under the direction of Professor Antonio Urquízar Herrera, obtaining the doctorate with a thesis titled: "Art and noble culture in the House of Fernán Núñez (1700-1850)". He has carried out research stays at the Center de Recherches Historiques de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 2009 and 2010, at the Institut Nationale d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA) in Paris in 2017 and at the Center of Humanities of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2018.

His interest has focused on the relations between art and noble society in the Modern Age, collecting and the functions of the work of art, and the figure of the artist in the transition from the Modern to the Contemporary Age.

Alberto Telleria Bartolome He studied architecture at ETSAM, and shared a professional study with the architect Vicente Patón Jiménez, participating in the restoration of the old Bauer Palace on Calle de San Bernardo (current Higher School of Singing), which was decorated by Arturo Mélida. He has collaborated in numerous publications on Madrid's architecture and heritage, as a researcher and editor of the seventeen volumes of Architecture and Urban Development, edited by the Community of Madrid and the Official College of Architects, as well as in the guide Madrid architecture, published by the latter in collaboration with the City Council. He is currently a technical member of the Madrid, Citizenship and Heritage association, dedicated to safeguarding Madrid's heritage, for which he has written various reports and given numerous conferences. 

Carmen Gallardo Duran He is a journalist. Specialized in issues of women, society, culture and dynasties and royal houses. 

She has done her professional work in the general information press for women such as Dunia, Joyce Spain and Yo Dona. 

Communication Director of Telemadrid and the University of Castilla La-Mancha. He has worked in radio (RNE and Cadena SER) and image and photography agencies. 

Contributor to Vanity Fair and Elle magazines; in the publishing house La Esfera de los Libros and in the consulting firm Thinking Heads. 

She is the author of the historical novel "The queen of the washerwomen" and has just published "The little book of the great women" in Alienta editorial (Planeta de libros)

He has collaborated in the biographies "The trip is the reward" by Francisco Luzón and "From Cayetana to Cayetano" by Cayetano Martínez de Irujo, both published by the Sphere of the books.

He has traveled with different NGOs to solidarity and cooperation projects in Africa and Haiti.  

Carlos Jose Hernando Sanchez He is a Doctor in Modern History from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1991. Professor of Modern History at the University of Valladolid. Corresponding member of the Royal Academy of History.

He has coordinated research projects such as The fortifications of Carlos V, subsidized by the Ministry of Defense and the Spanish Association of Friends of Castles, from 1998 to the end of 1999; Power and government in the kingdom of Naples during the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries, project granted by the Ministry of Science and Technology within the framework of the Ramón y Cajal Program and the National R + D + I Plan for the years 2004 to 2007. 

He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Journal Cheirón. Materials and instruments of historical updating, as well as the Collection on the Mediterranean by San Filippo Editore (Catania, Italy).

He has been Scientific Advisor to the State Society for Foreign Cultural Action and, before, Scientific Collaborator of the Lisbon State Society98, from October 1996 to March 1997, with advisory functions for the design of congress and exhibition programs projected by those entities. 

In the same field of cultural and scientific management, he was Scientific Coordinator of the State Society for the commemoration of the centenarians of Felipe II and Carlos V from its creation in 1997 to its extinction in 2001. In that role, he was responsible for the overall design , coordination and supervision of the contents of the congresses, publications and exhibitions organized inside and outside Spain, activities grouped into three main areas:    

• More than twenty exhibitions of a historical-artistic nature. 
• The publication program, made up of more than sixty titles, grouped into catalogs, conference proceedings and three monograph collections on Sources, History and Art History.
• The organization of ten international congresses and collaboration in many others organized by other instances.

 He has also been Deputy Commissioner of the exhibition The Catholic Monarchs and the Monarchy of Spain, held in Valencia between September and November 2004, organized by the State Society for Cultural Commemorations, and Deputy Commissioner of the exhibition Granada and the Catholic Monarchs, held in Granada from November 2004 to January 2005 and organized by the same entity.

Beatriz Blasco Esquivias She is Professor of Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she obtained her doctorate with an Extraordinary Prize (1990) and where she has been Vice Dean of Research and Cultural Extension, Coordinator of the Heritage Cluster of the Campus of International Excellence and Director of the Department (2010- 2017). Expert in art, architecture and city in the Modern Age, she has directed several research projects and temporary exhibitions on the area of ​​her competence, both in Spain and in Italy, where she has been a visiting professor at various universities. Author of numerous studies, her books include New Baztan. Juan de Goyeneche's Colbertista Utopia (Chair, 2019); Main square. Portrait and Mask of Madrid (Madrid City Council, 2018); Introduction to baroque art (Chair, 2015); Architects and tracists (1526-1700): the triumph of the Baroque at the court of the Habsburgs (CEEH, 2013); The House: evolution of the domestic space in Spain (El Viso, 2006); World Atlas of Baroque Architecture (in collaboration, Electa, 2001), and ¡Agua va !: urban hygiene in Madrid, (1561-1761) (Caja Madrid, 1998). He currently directs the UCM Research Group «The Spanish Court: Art, Artists and Patrons».

Luis Sazatornil Ruiz He is a doctor in History and Theory of Art from the Autonomous University of Madrid and, currently, Professor of Art History at the University of Cantabria. He has been a visiting researcher at the Department of Art History of the CSIC, at the "Center Ledoux" of the Université Paris I and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. 

He has published numerous works on architecture and the city, artistic exchanges in Europe or national identities, highlighting the books Antonio de Zabaleta. The romantic renewal of Spanish architecture (1992) Architecture and urban development of Cantabria in the XNUMXth century (1996) o Indian art and patronage. From the Cantabrian to the Caribbean (Trea, 2007); as well as articles in national and international magazines (Revue de l'Art, Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, Spanish Art Archive, Royal Sites, Bulletin d'Histoire Contemporaine de l'Espagne, among other). 

In recent years he has coordinated several monographs (Spanish art between Rome and Paris, XNUMXth-XNUMXth centuries, Velázquez House, 2014; Art, city and noble cultures in Spain, XV-XIX centuries, CSIC, 2019), research projects, national and international conferences (L'Espagne between Rome et Paris. Regards croisés d'une Europe des Arts, 1700-1900, Rome-Paris-Madrid, 2010; Art, city and noble cultures in Spain, Madrid, 2018) and has curated several exhibitions (The Art of seeing. Treaties, magazines, manifests, Santander, 2016; Imago urbis. Spanish cities seen by travelers, XVI-XIX centuries, Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias, 2019. Member of several editorial or scientific councils of prestigious magazines and publishers, he is currently also the principal investigator of the project Urban cultures in Modern Spain (XVI-XIX centuries), financed by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

José Luis Sancho Gaspar (Madrid, 1962), he has a degree in History of Art from the Complutense University of Madrid. From 1986 he works as a researcher in National Heritage.

His research work has focused mainly on the architecture and decoration of Spanish royal residences during the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, always dealing with the relationship between the various arts and their integration in the service of the practical and representative functions of the palaces.

Among his books, it is worth mentioning The Architecture of the Royal Sites. Historical catalog of palaces, gardens and royal patronages of the National Heritage, 1996. The Royal Palace of Carlos III in El Pardo, 2002. The Prince's Cottage in El Pardo, Madrid 2009. In addition to articles in specialized magazines he has published in the catalogs of the exhibitions Francisco Sabatini (Madrid 1993), Filippo Juvarra(Madrid-Turin 1994) EThe Alcazar of Madrid (Madrid 1994), cartons and carpets by Goya (Madrid 1996), Felipe V (The 2000 Farm), El Art in the Court of Felipe V (Madrid 2002) Cortes of the Baroque (Madrid 2003). He was also vice-curator of the exhibition Jardines of Felipe II (1998, with Carmen Añón), and curator of Illustration and Liberalism (Madrid 2008, with Emilio Laparra and Carlos Sambricio); CArlos IV, patron and collector (Madrid 2009, with Javier Jordán de Urríes); Carlos III and the Royal Sites (Madrid 2016, with Javier Ortega) Carlos III, majesty and decoration (Madrid 2016, with Pilar Benito and Javier Jordán de Urríes).

Oscar da Rocha Aranda He is a Doctor in Art History from the Autonomous University of Madrid and Professor of Contemporary Art at the Institute of Humanities Francesco Petrarca. He also develops his teaching work in the Official Master in Rehabilitation, Maintenance and Recovery of Building at the Alfonso X el Sabio University, and in the Master in Study and Management of Contemporary Art (MEGAC) organized in collaboration with the Toledo Chamber of Commerce . In addition, he is a founding member of the Now Architecture Cultural Association, for the defense and dissemination of Madrid's architectural heritage.

He is specialized in the research and study of art and architecture of the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries, and throughout his professional career, as an art historian and researcher, he has worked for the COAM Foundation (Historical Service), the Unit of Historical Parks of the Madrid City Council (El Capricho Garden of the Alameda de Osuna), the Royal Academy of History (Spanish Biographical Dictionary), the Architecture and Heritage Service of the Community of Madrid (Regional Catalog of Architectural Heritage), the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of the Madrid City Council (Web Monumentamadrid. Commemorative Monuments), the cultural service companies Tritoma, Idel and Grupo Educativo (professor at Municipal Cultural Centers) and the Higher Institute of Art I | Art (coordinator and professor of the College Contemporary Art).

His various publications include books: Madrid architecture from eclecticism to modernity: Jesús Carrasco-Muñoz (1869-1957) (2002); A centennial milestone of Madrid architecture: the headquarters of the Casino de Madrid (1903-2003) (2003); Modernist Madrid: architecture guide (2006); Modernism in Madrid architecture. Genesis and development of an eclectic option (2009); The construction of the parish church of Vacarisses, between the local late Baroque and the academic neoclassicism (2011); The Royal National Academy of Medicine. History of a centennial building (2014); Francisco de Cubas y González-Montes (1827-1899), 2015st Marquis of Cubas. The man and the architect in Madrid in the 11th century (1915); Príncipe de Vergara, 2015. Centenary of a singular building (2016-2017) (1851); The Foundation of the Blessed Virgin and Saint Celedonius: a centennial institution founded by the Counts of Val (2018); and La Alameda de Osuna according to the archaeologist Basilio Sebastián Castellanos: an incomplete historical-artistic description from XNUMX (XNUMX).

Julio Gonzalez Iglesias President of the Spanish Academy of Historical Studies of Stomatology and Dentistry since its creation. Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Salamanca with a qualification of Outstanding (1970). Doctor of Medicine and Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid with an outstanding qualification Cum Laude (1976). Graduate Medical Stomatologist at the School of Stomatology of Madrid (1974). Delegate of the School and Juan Mañes Award to the most outstanding student.