The Architect of Royal Splendor: The Life of Bartolomé González y Serrano In the grand, gilded corridors of the seventeenth-century Spanish court, few artists possessed the ability to capture the solemnity of power quite like Bartolomé González y Serrano. Born in Valladolid in 1564, his journey was one defined by the pursuit of a refined, aristocratic aesthetic that would eventually make him the preeminent chronicler of the Spanish mo…