Habsburg Madrid

Architecture and the Spanish Monarchy

Jesús Escobar (Northwestern University)

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Pennsylvania State University Press
12 April 2022

History of architecture; Spanish Civil War

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.

By: Jesús Escobar (Northwestern University)
Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 229mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 1.542kg
ISBN: 9780271091419
ISBN 10: 027109141X
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 12 April 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jesús Escobar is Professor of Art History at Northwestern University and author of the award-winning book The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid.

Reviews for Habsburg Madrid: Architecture and the Spanish Monarchy

“A rich, thoughtful, well-written, and even entertaining read.” —Felipe Pereda Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians “This lavish and splendidly illustrated volume is an important addition to the literature on Spanish architecture and urbanism of the early modern era in the English-language literature.” —Juan Luis Burke CAA.Reviews “. . . a fascinating study of the nuances of architectural spaces, how they were used and experienced, and the co-construction of Habsburg and madrileño identity.” —Jessica Weiss Renaissance and Reformation “Jesús Escobar’s Habsburg Madrid is a new and original book on Spanish urban history and architecture, focused on the court and capital town in a way never addressed by Spanish historians.” —Fernando Marías,author of El Greco’s Visual Poetics “Habsburg Madrid is a lively read and will hold great appeal for the architectural historian and architect, both of whom will sense Escobar’s own excitement about his discoveries that afford this kind of detailed analysis for the first time.” —Dorothy Metzger Habel,author of “When All of Rome Was Under Construction”: The Building Process in Baroque Rome