«Views» of Sanlúcar de Barrameda. Image of the power of the Ducal House of Medina Sidonia

Abstract

This article addresses the reflected image of the city of Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz, Spain), which was the capital of the dominion of the Pérez de Guzmán family, counts of Niebla and dukes of Medina Sidonia, located at the mouth of the Guadalquivir. Its iconographic representation as "view", throughout the 16th to 18th centuries, has been an idealized literary and artistic object, and approached in a topographical way due to its strategic and emblematic value for the Crown and the Ducal House, as seat of the Fleet of the Indies.