From Madrid to Mexico City, Santo Domingo to Rome: The Circulation of Architectural Knowledge in the Spanish Habsburg World
Northwestern University professor of art history Escobar discusses some of the big ideas and forces behind the circulation of architectural knowledge in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries across the Spanish Empire.
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Jesús Escobar is a scholar of architecture and urbanism in the early modern, transatlantic Spanish Empire. He is author of The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid (Cambridge University Press, 2003; revised, Spanish-language edition published by Editorial Nerea, 2007) and Habsburg Madrid: Architecture and the Spanish Monarchy (Penn State University Press, 2022). Escobar is a member of the National Committee for the History of Art; Editor for the scholarly book series, Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies, published by Penn State University Press; and has served on the Board of the Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians. He was chair of the Department of Art History at Northwestern for seven years between 2010 and 2018.