Bibliografía, fuentes y futuras líneas de investigación sobre los gremios artísticos sevillanos

Abstract

In the Early Modern Era Seville was an important manufacturing center, embedded in the union system and with a fabulous American projection. The wealth of its Municipal Archive and a long research tradition have produced bibliographic milestones readings on the Sevillian model of corporate art production, market and international exchange. These studies have been the base for new research since many years now. An important instrument for the study of the Sevilla guild system consisted in the 1975 facsimile edition of a collection of city rules established by the Spanish Kings (Ordenanzas de Sevilla), published in 1632 and reprinted in 1975. The key figure for the development of the historiography of art making in early modern Seville, is José Gestoso, who wrote an Essay on a dictionary of artificers who flourished in Seville (1899), a book which was followed by other studies on the history of manufacturing and the artistic unions by local erudites, connoisseurs and historians such as Collantes de Terán, García-Baquero, and Miguel Bernal. Our research on the Sevillian guild of carriage makers offers a renewed focus on the world of the Sevillian guilds, their disputes with other professions, their American projection.