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Juan de Contreras y López de Ayala
AuthorBooks · Second hand1893-1978
Juan de Contreras y López de Ayala Thomé y del Hierro, better known as the Marquess of Lozoya as the ninth holder of that noble title, was a Spanish historian, university professor, art critic, writer, journalist, and politician.
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About Juan de Contreras y López de Ayala
Birth
1893
Death
1978
Juan de Contreras y López de Ayala Thomé y del Hierro, better known as the Marquess of Lozoya as the ninth holder of that noble title, was a Spanish historian, university professor, art critic, writer, journalist, and politician.
Juan de Contreras y López de Ayala was a multifaceted intellectual from Segovia who excelled in both politics and literature.
His work as an art historian allowed him to delve into the aesthetics of past eras with great academic rigor.
He is remembered for his work The Spanish Costume in the Time of Goya, a fundamental reference for understanding historical fashion.
Throughout his life, he cultivated genres as diverse as poetry, the novel, and art criticism.
As an academic and professor, he dedicated much of his career to historical and cultural dissemination in Spain.
