COMUNICACIÓN Y PRENSA

• Carlos Moreno-Torres Herrera
• Granada, 2016

For centuries Granada has had a special magnetism for travellers, something that is clearly enhanced by such a unique monument as the Alhambra. 
The city was discovered by the art world at the beginning of the 19th century when there was a boom in foreign visitors. Local people soon discovered that they could make a living from them, by offering visiting artists the image they sought, so eternalizing already well established stereotypes.
The book we are recommending offers a selection of literary and painted images of Granada and the Alhambra, ranging from descriptions by enlightened visitors and travel books -generally in the form of diaries and sometimes including drawings or watercolour sketches- to artworks painted on easels and finished in the artist’s studio on the basis of notes taken previously from life.
Examples of all of these can be found in this interesting new compendium. The Alhambra Library also has copies of some of the books it refers to.