La percepción social de la Monarquía

Se plantea la importancia de las fuentes iconográficas para la historia social y se ofrecen algunos ejemplos de obras artísticas menores que responden a una intención política o propagandística, sacados de la historia española de los siglos XVI-XVIII, con especial referencia al retrato de reyes.The present article proposes the importante that the iconographical sources have for the social history and it ofSers some examples of artistic minor works, especially king's portraits, extracted from the histories of Spain written during the SUcteenth and Seventeenth centuries, which were produced with a political propaganda aim