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

Maria Victoria Lopez Cordon Cortezo She is Professor of Modern History at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and an Honorary Professor at the same institution. She has supervised 22 doctoral dissertations, as well as numerous undergraduate theses and dissertations. She has led and participated in various research projects on 18th-century Spanish society, politics, and intellectual life, and has been a visiting professor at several international institutions, notably the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, Roma Tre University, and Harvard University. In parallel, she has also been working on the social status of women, particularly the evolution and institutional role of queens and their courtly circles, and the lives and works of 18th-century women writers. 

In this vein, among her publications are: Condición femenina y razón ilustrada. Josefa Amar y Borbón, Zaragoza, Prensas Universitarias, 2005; Madame de Staël, Reflexiones sobre el proceso de una reina, 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; “Reinas madres, reinas hijas: educación, política y correspondencia en las cortes dieciochescas” in Historia y Política. Ideas, procesos y movimientos sociales, vol. 31, 2014, pp. 49-80 “Between Witina and Julia: The Intellectual Journey of Maria Josefa Amalia of Saxony” in MD Gimeno Puyol and E. Viamonte Lucientes, eds. The Journeys of Reason. Blanco, Zaragoza, Institución Fernando el Católico, 2015; “The Palatine Mirror or the Ladies’ Net: Courtly Sociability or Political Culture?” in Manuel Reyes García Hurtado, ed. The 18th Century in Feminine. Women in the Age of Enlightenment, Madrid, Síntesis, 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: femmes influentes, 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 of 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 holds a PhD in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where he received the Extraordinary Doctoral Prize. His doctoral thesis was published by the Madrid City Council and the Caja Madrid Foundation. He has over sixty publications, including books, chapters, and articles, notably his scientific coordination of the book "Palaces of Madrid," promoted by the Community of Madrid and the Caja Madrid Foundation in 2010, which won the COAM Prize in 2011. He was Head of the Historical Service of the Official College of Architects of Madrid (2002-2011) and Director of the Architecture Institute of the same organization (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 She holds a degree in Art History from the Faculty of Geography and History at the Complutense University of Madrid. • Landscape Architect • 1998-2006 President of the International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes ICOMOS-IFLA • Member of the Institute of Madrid Studies and the Scientific Committee of the European Institute of Gardens and Landscapes.

She holds a degree in Art History from the Faculty of Geography and History at the Complutense University of Madrid. • Landscape Architect • 1998-2006 President of the International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes ICOMOS-IFLA • Member of the Institute of Madrid Studies and the Scientific Committee of the European Institute of Gardens and Landscapes.

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 nominations. She has conducted assessments, reports, and joint missions with the World Heritage Centre. She coordinated the World Heritage nomination of the Paseo del Prado and El Retiro, Landscape of 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.

Selected publications: Artistic Gardens of Spain (Espasa Calpe), Gardens in Spain (Actes Sud), El Capricho de la Alameda de Osuna (Madrid City Council - Madrid City Council Prize), Unique Gardens (Lunwerg), Garden and Romanticism (ed. Community of Madrid), Chapters on Baroque and Landscape Gardens in Parameters of the Spanish Garden (Ministry of Culture), Guide to Gardens of Spain, for the Spanish Tourism Institute, as well as numerous articles on gardens and cultural landscapes.

She compiled the historical record and inventory of historic gardens for the Board of Trustees of Gardens of the Ministry of Culture (1980), and participated as a member of the research and coordination team in the exhibitions Classical Madrid Gardens (1981), Winthuysen, Gardener (1986), Philip II, the Intimate King. Garden and Nature in the 16th Century (1998), and was Deputy Curator of the exhibition Melibea's Garden (1999). She 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 He is Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History (University of Alicante). He has taught as a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Aix-Marseille (1993-94 and 1998-1999) and François Rabelais University of Tours (2005-2006). He was Director of the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library (2000-2005). He is a Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of History. He received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of 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.
• Early Liberalism and the Church. The Cortes of Cádiz, Alicante, Juan Gil-Albert Institute of Culture, 1985.
• Godoy's alliance with the revolutionaries. Spain and France at the end of the 18th century, Madrid, Higher Council of Scientific Research, 1992.
• 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, Síntesis, 2007.
• Fernando VII. A King Desired and Detested, 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 Tellería Bartolomé studied architecture at the ETSAM (Madrid School of Architecture) and shared a professional studio with the architect Vicente Patón Jiménez, participating in the restoration of the former Bauer Palace on San Bernardo Street (now the Higher School of Singing), which was decorated by Arturo Mélida. He has contributed to numerous publications on Madrid's architecture and heritage, as a researcher and editor of the seventeen volumes of *Architecture and Urban Development*, published by the Community of Madrid and the Official College of Architects, as well as the *Architecture of Madrid* guide, published by the latter in collaboration with the City Council. He is currently a technical advisor to the association *Madrid, Citizenship and Heritage*, dedicated to safeguarding Madrid's heritage, for which he has written several reports and given numerous lectures. 

Carmen Gallardo Durán is a journalist. She specializes in women's issues, society, culture, and royal dynasties and 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 José Hernando Sánchez holds a PhD in Modern History from the Complutense University of Madrid (1991). He is a tenured professor of Modern History at the University of Valladolid and a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of History.

He has coordinated research projects such as The Fortifications of Charles 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 16th and 17th Centuries, a 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 Cheiron Magazine. Materiali e strumenti di aggiornamento storiografico, as well as from the Collection on the Mediterranean of 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 of 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 is Professor of Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she earned her doctorate with Extraordinary Distinction (1990) and where she has served as Vice-Dean of Research and Cultural Extension, Coordinator of the Heritage Cluster of the Campus of International Excellence, and Head of Department (2010-2017). An expert in art, architecture, and urbanism in the Early Modern period, she has directed several research projects and temporary exhibitions in her field, both in Spain and Italy, where she has been a visiting professor at various universities. Author of numerous studies, her books include *Nuevo Baztán. La utopía colbertista de Juan de Goyeneche* (Cátedra, 2019); *La Plaza Mayor. Retrato y Máscara de Madrid* (Ayuntamiento de Madrid, 2018); and *Introducción al arte barroco* (Cátedra, 2015). Architects and Designers (1526-1700): The Triumph of the Baroque at the Habsburg Court (CEEH, 2013); The House: Evolution of 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 cities, artistic exchanges in Europe, and national identities, including the books Antonio de Zabaleta. The Romantic Renewal of Spanish Architecture (1992), Architecture and Urban Development of Cantabria in the 19th Century (1996), and Art and Indian Patronage: From the Cantabrian Coast to the Caribbean (Trea, 2007); as well as articles in national and international journals (Revue de l'Art, Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, Archivo Español de Arte, Reales Sitios, Bulletin d'Histoire Contemporaine de l'Espagne, among others). 

In recent years he has coordinated several monographs (Spanish Art between Rome and Paris, 18th-19th Centuries, Casa de Velázquez, 2014; Art, City and Noble Cultures in Spain, 15th-19th Centuries, CSIC, 2019), research projects, national and international conferences (Spain between Rome and Paris: Cross-Cutting Views of a Europe of the Arts, 1700-1900, Rome-Paris-Madrid, 2010; Art, City and Noble Cultures in Spain, Madrid, 2018) and curated several exhibitions (The Art of Seeing: Treatises, Journals, Manifestos, Santander, 2016; Imago Urbis: Spanish Cities as Seen by Travelers, 16th-19th Centuries, Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias, 2019). A member of several editorial or scientific boards of prestigious journals and publishing houses, he is currently also the principal investigator of the Cultures project. urban areas in Modern Spain (16th-19th centuries), funded 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 González Iglesias, President of the Spanish Academy of Historical Studies of Stomatology and Dentistry since its inception. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Salamanca with highest honors (1970). He earned his Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid with the highest distinction (1976). He graduated as a Medical Stomatologist from the Madrid School of Stomatology (1974). He served as a Delegate of the School and received the Juan Mañes Award for the most outstanding student.