La entrada de la reina María Ana de Neoburgo en Madrid (1690): Una decoración efímera de Palomino y de Ruiz de la Iglesia

Abstract

The building of a series of ephemeral monuments was projected by Madrid's Council for the entry of María Ana de Neoburg; among them, there was an arch gallery around San Salvador's fountain which was commended to two prestige artists: Antonio Palomino and Francisco Ignacio Ruiz de la Iglesia, who got in charge, not only of the architectural side but of the iconographical and symbolic one, and even of the composition of the hieroglyphs' letters -something completely unusual. In this article, different aspects of this decoration are analysed, and the iconographical sources are studied, as well as other matters related to the project of the book about the entry that the Council planned to published.