LA INTERVENCIÓN DEL DUQUE DE RIÍNSARES EN EL MUNDO DE LAS ARTES

New themes and styles appeared in art, fueled by the demand of the new social elites. Fernando Muñoz not only quickly learned to know art and to incorporate paintings into his home in accordance with the fashion of the time, but he also assimilated the bourgeois mentality in economic terms, that is, in conceiving art also as a business, selling and buying paintings as valuable commodities. After the rupture of the traditional channels of patronage and the art market, Muñoz was able to successfully overcome this problem and form an extremely important pictorial collection at the same time that he managed to make a name for himself among artists, becoming a true patron that guaranteed success, economic and artistic in the new society. A través de los estatutos de la propia institución se advertía que el objetivo principal del organismo era el «fomento y prosperidad de las Bellas Artes», para lo que se organizaban las sesiones semanales, exposiciones, salones de ventas, publicaciones propias, etc.19.