Material life

Testimonies of daily life: Spanish furniture in the Baroque period

• Spanish Baroque furniture and its survival today
• To preserve reserved documents: papeleras and desks from the Baroque period
• Rest in Baroque Spain: beds
• Unchanged forms over time: chairs, sillones and sillas de mano
• Small pieces of furniture: braziers, lamps and mirrors

Eating and Drinking in Baroque Europe

• Slow changes
• The crisis of the seventeenth century and the domination of cereals
• Old and new foods
• Food and the table in high society
• Treaties and cookbooks