COMUNICACIÓN Y PRENSA

Cuadernos de la Alhambra is an annual publication that represents the Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife´s spirit of scientific interest, already established as a model for research and cultural spreading. Cuadernos de la Alhambra´s issue nº 42 comprises the works of conservation and restoration realized in the Cuadernos de la Alhambra´s, analyzed from a multidisciplinary perspective. These are contributions that allude to the initiatives derived from its program of permanent conservation on the Monumental Complex, carried out between the year 2000 and 2002, as well as those that are a fruit of recent research activities, all together in a monographic issue dedicated to the in depth study of this site with great cultural value.
The issue emphasizes aspects like the manifold range of names of the site or its material history with many changes, its structural and decorative components, the possible initial and later uses associated with a complicated process of restoration, its decorative calligraphies or the ones in its walls, including the traces of those who once expressed his vital testimony on the interior walls, as well as the refined texts of the romantic travelers to which it served as inspiration, its predecessors and its artistic impact, as well as its general aspects and its specific ones.
The content of this special issue of Cuadernos de la Alhambra is as follows: ‘The Queen´s Dressing Room: research and cultural synthesis’, María del Mar Villafranca;  ‘The tower of Abu-I-Hayyay or the Dressing Room Tower in the Nasrid period: historical origins and architectural analysis’, José Manuel Gómez-Moreno Calera; ‘Christian transformations of the Dressing Room Tower from the 16th to the 19th century’, José Gómez-Moreno Calera; ‘Torres Balbás’ restoration of the Queen´s Dressing Room’, Miguel Ángel Martín Céspedes; ‘The Tower of the Stove and the introduction of Classicism in the Alhambra’, Juan Carlos Hinojosa Canovaca; ‘Julio and Alejandro. Italian grotesques and Flemish cartography in the Queen´s Dressing Room’, Nicole Dacos; ‘Restoration and conservation of the Queen´s Dressing Room’, Juan Águilas Gutiérrez and Bárbara Hasbach Lugo; ‘Travellers in the Alhambra: The Queen´s Dressing Room’, Cristina Viñes Millet.
Cuadernos is the result of the effort of several personalities linked to the Alhambra and to the University of Granada: Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez (1870-1970), Leopoldo Torres Balbás (1888-1960), Emilio García Gómez (1905-1995), José Manuel Pita Andrade, who became the first director of the magazine, Jesus Bermúdez Pareja (1908-1986), Darío Cabanelas Rodríguez (1916-1992) and Emilio Orozco Díaz (1909-1987).
Until the issue nº 40, the section called ‘Crónica’ was included, as a balance sheet of the Institution´s annual performances. The issue nº 41, which is a commemorative special publication for the 40 anniversary of the magazine´s appearance, supposed an inflection point in the publication, including the Spanish-English bilingual edition and a CD with the indexes of all the issues.