Architectural Temperance: Spain And Rome, 1700-1759 (Routledge Research In Architecture)

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 Through the inclusion of previously unpublished documents and images that shed light on the theoretical debates whichshaped eighteenth-century architecture in Rome and Madrid, Architectural Temperance provides an insight into eighteenth century Spanish architecture in English.

• | Author: Victor Deupi
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Oct 02, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 214 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0415724392
• | ISBN-13: 9780415724395