Download or read book Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire written by Laura Fernández-González and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip II of Spain was a major patron of the arts, best known for his magnificent palace and royal mausoleum at the Monastery of San Lorenzo of El Escorial. However, neither the king’s monastery nor his collections fully convey the rich artistic landscape of early modern Iberia. In this book, Laura Fernández-González examines Philip’s architectural and artistic projects, placing them within the wider context of Europe and the transoceanic Iberian dominions. Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire investigates ideas of empire and globalization in the art and architecture of the Iberian world during the sixteenth century, a time when the Spanish Empire was one of the largest in the world. Fernández-González illuminates Philip’s use of building regulations to construct an imperial city in Madrid and highlights the importance of his transformation of the Simancas fortress into an archive. She analyzes the refashioning of his imperial image upon his ascension to the Portuguese throne and uses the Hall of Battles in El Escorial as a lens through which to understand visual culture, history writing, and Philip’s kingly image as it was reflected in the funeral commemorations mourning his death across the Iberian world. Positioning Philip’s art and architectural programs within the wider cultural context of politics, legislation, religion, and theoretical trends, Fernández-González shows how design and images traveled across the Iberian world and provides a nuanced assessment of Philip’s role in influencing them. Original and important, this panoramic work will have a lasting impact on Philip II’s artistic legacy. Art historians and scholars of Iberia and sixteenth-century history will especially value Fernández-González’s research.

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Download or read book On site written by Terence Riley and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Site~ISBN 0-87070-499-0 U.S. $45.00 / Paperback, 9 x 10.5 in. / 280 pgs / 295 color and 165 b&w. ~Item / February / Architecture Featuring 36 buildings that have made Spain a center for architectural innovation and excellence.

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Download or read book Architecture and Ideology in Early Medieval Spain written by Jerrilynn Denise Dodds and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In analyzing the early medieval architecture of Christian and Islamic Spain, Jerrilynn Dodds explores the principles of artistic response to social and cultural tension, offering an account of that unique artistic experience that set Spain apart from the rest of Europe and established a visual identity born of the confrontation of cultures that perceived one another as alien. Architecture and Ideology in Early Medieval Spain covers the Spanish medieval experience from the Visigothic oligarchy to the year 1000, addressing a variety of cases of cultural interchange. It examines the embattled reactive stance of Hispano-Romans to their Visigothic rulers and the Asturian search for a new language of forms to support a political position dissociated from the struggles of a peninsula caught in the grip of a foreign and infidel rule. Dodds then examines the symbolic meaning of the Mozarabic churches of the tenth century and their reflection of the Mozarabs' threatened cultural identity. The final chapter focuses on two cases of artistic interchange between Islamic and Christian builders with a view toward understanding the dynamics of such interchange between conflicting cultures. Dodds concludes with a short account of the beginning of Romanesque architecture in Spain and an analysis of some of the ways in which artistic expression can reveal the subconscious of a culture.

Download or read book The Modern in Spain written by Gabriel Ruiz Cabrero and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical survey of Spanish architecture, hitting all the high points since World War II. The advances made by modern Spanish architecture from the 1940s, when it lay in silence and obscurity, to the 1990s, when it received worldwide acclaim, is a dramatic story, probably the most remarkable case of postwar architectural progress in Europe. This definitive critical study of postwar Spanish architecture looks at the works, projects, trends, landmarks, architects, and engineers of the period. It is both a descriptive history and a new critical evaluation by one of Spain's most important architectural critics and historians.* Not for sale in Italy, Spain, and Central and South America

Download or read book Art and Architecture of Spain written by Xavier Barral i Altet and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three millennia of Spain's masterworks and major artistic personalities are illustrated in crisp, new color photography for this extraordinary and unprecedented survey. Fourteen original essays, each by a prominent specialist, cover the following topics: Prehistory and First Contacts with Mediterranean Antiquity; Roman Art and Architecture in Spain; From Antiquity to the Middle Ages, Christianization, and the Visigothic World; Preromanesque and Romanesque Art; Gothic Spain; The Presence of Islam and Arab Art; The Art of the Renaissance; The Baroque; The Art of Colonial Spanish America; Francisco Goya; The Nineteenth Century; Spanish Art from 1900 to 1939; Pablo Picasso; and Contemporary Art, Architecture, and Design. Each chapter includes illustrated mini-essays highlighting subjects of special interest: for example, recent discoveries of prehistoric art; a stunning illuminated Apocalypse made in the year 1078; and the twentieth-century Catalan master architect Antoni Gaudi.

Download or read book An Architect s Note Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country written by M. Digby Sir Wyatt and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spain, an Architect's Notebook mostly depicts the country's home architecture. Before departing England for his first journey to Spain in the fall of 1869, Matthew Digby Wyat wanted to view and depict as many of the country's architectural ruins as he could in the time and resources available to him. He also decided to draw to recognize the publishing of my sketches and a portion of his notes on the things shown, in the exact form in which they may be constructed. The idea that Spain's great heritage was being trampled on nearly daily inspired his determination. Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt is a British architect and art historian who served as the Grand Exhibition's secretary, the East India Company's surveyor, and the university of Cambridge's first Slade Fine Arts professor.

Download or read book Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain written by George Edmund Street and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain" by George Edmund Street. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Download or read book Spanish Colonial Architecture in the United States written by Rexford Newcomb and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic study by noted authority traces Spanish architectural influence in Florida, the Gulf Coast, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. 195 photographs and 50 measured drawings.

Download or read book Building in a New Spain written by Kenneth Frampton and published by Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.

Download or read book The New Spanish Architecture written by Anatxu Zabalbeascoa and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of architecture in Spain since World War II and examines the work of thirteen architects and firms.

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