| Architectural Temperance: Spain and Rome, 1700-1759 Contributor(s): Deupi, Victor (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138229318 ISBN-13: 9781138229310 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $68.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Criticism - Architecture | History - Contemporary (1945 -) - Architecture | Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial |
| Dewey: 720.945 |
| Physical Information: 216 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Architectural Temperance examines relations between Bourbon Spain and papal Rome (1700-1759) through the lens of cultural politics. With a focus on key Spanish architects sent to study in Rome by the Bourbon Kings, the book also discusses the establishment of a program of architectural education at the newly founded Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. Victor Deupi explores why a powerful nation like Spain would temper its own building traditions with the more cosmopolitan trends associated with Rome; often at the expense of its own national and regional traditions. Through the inclusion of previously unpublished documents and images that shed light on the theoretical debates which shaped eighteenth-century architecture in Rome and Madrid, Architectural Temperance provides readers with new insights into the cultural history of early modern Spain. |