A Sevillian Bed for The Baron of Petrapesia: Masterpiece of the Painters Gonzalo de Flores and Hernando de Alcalá

El estudio de las relaciones culturales ente Sevilla e Italia en la Edad Moderna, nos condujo al hallazgo de un contrato en el Archivo Histórico Provincial de la ciudad, en el que se recogía el acuerdo entre Matteo Barresi, un barón siciliano, y dos pintores, poco conocidos hasta este momento, Gonzalo de Flores y Hernando de Alcalá, para la realización de la decoración de cuatro paños para una cama. El resultado nos aporta no sólo una serie de noticias del panorama artístico y social de la Sevilla en el año de la boda de Carlos V, sino también datos desconocidos sobre la biografía del dicho noble.The study of the cultural relations between Seville and Italy during the Modern Age, lead us to the discovering of a contract in the Archivo Histórico Provincial of the city, which show the agreement between Matteo Barresi, a Sicilian baron, and two painters, nearly unknown until this moment, Gonzalo de Flores y Hernando de Alcalá, for the realization of the decoration of four panels of canvas for a bed. The result gives us not only a sort of news about the artistic and social environment of Seville during the Charles V’s wedding time, but also new information about the Italian nobleman biography

Fixed points and common fixed points for orbit-nonexpansive mappings in metric spaces

In this paper we introduce an interlacing condition on the elements of a family of operators that allows us to gather together a number of results on fixed points and common fixed points for single and families of mappings defined on metric spaces. The innovative concept studied here deals with nonexpansivity conditions with respect to orbits and under assumptions that only depend on the features of the closed balls of the metric space