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Habsburg Madrid - Architecture and the Spanish Monarchy (Hardcover)
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Habsburg Madrid - Architecture and the Spanish Monarchy (Hardcover)
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With its selection as the court of the Spanish Habsburgs, Madrid
became the de facto capital of a global empire, a place from which
momentous decisions were made whose implications were felt in all
corners of a vast domain. By the seventeenth century, however,
political theory produced in the Monarquia Hispanica dealt
primarily with the concept of decline. In this book, Jesus Escobar
argues that the buildings of Madrid tell a different story about
the final years of the Habsburg dynasty. Madrid took on a grander
public face over the course of the seventeenth century, creating a
"court space" for residents and visitors alike. Drawing from the
representation of the city's architecture in prints, books, and
paintings, as well as re-created plans standing in for lost
documents, Escobar demonstrates how, through shared forms and
building materials, the architecture of Madrid embodied the
monarchy and promoted its chief political ideals of justice and
good government. Habsburg Madrid explores palaces, public plazas, a
town hall, a courthouse, and a prison, narrating the lived
experience of architecture in a city where a wide roster of
protagonists, from architects and builders to royal patrons, court
bureaucrats, and private citizens, helped shape a modern capital.
Richly illustrated, highly original, and written by a leading
scholar in the field, this volume disrupts the traditional
narrative about seventeenth-century Spanish decadencia. It will be
welcomed by specialists in Habsburg Spain and by historians of art,
architecture, culture, economics, and politics.
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