Title Habsburg Madrid : architecture and the Spanish monarchy / Jesús Escobar

Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- introduction -- Notes to introduction -- Chapter 1: Architecture and Grandeza -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Monarchy and Governance The Royal Palace, ca. 1620 -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: Justice and Penance The Court Prison, ca. 1640 -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: Town Versus Court The Town Hall, ca. 1660 -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: Regency and Renovation Palaces and Plazas, ca. 1680 -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary 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 Monarquía Hispánica dealt primarily with the concept of decline. In this book, Jesús 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 Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 25, 2022) Subject Architecture -- Spain -- Madrid -- 17th century Public architecture -- Spain -- Madrid -- History -- 17th century Palaces -- Spain -- Madrid -- History -- 17th century ARCHITECTURE / History / Baroque & Rococo. Architecture Buildings Palaces Public architecture SUBJECT Madrid (Spain) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- History -- 17th century Madrid (Spain) -- History -- 17th century Subject Spain -- Madrid Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780271091891 0271091894 9780271091884 0271091886

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