Madrid in 1590-91

Author

Wilkinson-Zerner, C.

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Kritische Berichte. 1992, Num. 1, Vol. 20, 93-105, 4 ill.; 1 map

ISSN

0340-7403

Abstract (en)

Examines the conditions in Madrid in 1590-91 which impelled Philip II to undertake urban reforms and suggests how these stimulated an innovative conception of the city and its buildings. Discusses how Madrid was imagined as an expanding, secular, utilitarian city, the first post-antique city of this kind. The vision of a practical and serviceable classicism developed by the king and his architect Herrera turned the city itself into an object of royal patronage.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture -- Spain
• Cities
• Urbanism
• Architecture
• Spain
• 1500-1600
• Patronage
• Felipe II, king of Spain, 1527-1598
• Herrera, Juan de, 1530-1597
• Madrid (ESP)

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture -- Espagne
• Ville
• Urbanisme
• Architecture
• Espagne
• 1500-1600
• Mécénat
• Felipe II, roi d'Espagne, 1527-1598
• Herrera, Juan de, 1530-1597
• Madrid (ESP)

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19940401-00339645

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