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Architectural Temperance: Spain and Rome, 1700-1759
Contributor(s): Deupi, Victor (Author)
ISBN: 0415724392     ISBN-13: 9780415724395
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $209.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | History - Contemporary (1945 -)
- Architecture | Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial
- Architecture | Methods & Materials
Dewey: 720.945
LCCN: 2014006114
Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.10 lbs) 214 pages
 
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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Through the inclusion of previously unpublished documents and images that shed light on the theoretical debates which shaped eighteenth-century architecture in Rome and Madrid, Architectural Temperance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.