Jesus Escobar, Jes?'s Escobar, Jes S. Escobar

The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the transformation of Madrid from a secondary market town to the capital of the worldwide, Spanish Habsburg empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9780521111539
• ISBN-10: 0521111536
• Artikelnr.: 26009946

Autorenporträt

Jesús Escobar is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University and a specialist in the art, architecture, and urbanism of early modern Spain, Italy, and the Spanish world. His book The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid won the Eleanor Tufts Award from the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies and has been revised in a Spanish-language edition (Editorial Nerea, 2008). He is currently at work on a book project that examines architectural and urban interventions in seventeenth-century Madrid from a local and transatlantic perspective.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Madrid, town and court
2. Architecture and bureaucracy
3. Sixteenth-century initiatives
4. The panadería and its impact
5. Seventeenth-century reforms
6. The plaza mayor as political symbol.