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The Escorial
Few buildings have played so central a role in Spain's history as the monastery-palace of San Lorenzo del Escorial. Colossal in size and imposing-even forbidding-in appearance, the Escorial has invited and defied description for four centuries. Part palace, part monastery, part mausoleum, it has also served as a shrine, a school, a repository for thousands of relics, and one of the greatest libraries of its time. Constructed over the course of more than twenty years, the Escorial challenged and provoked, becoming for some a symbol of superstition and oppression, for others a \"wonder of the world.\" Now a World Heritage Site, it is visited by thousands of travelers every year.
In this intriguing study, Henry Kamen looks at the circumstances that brought the young Philip II to commission construction of the Escorial in 1563. He explores Philip's motivation, the influence of his travels, the meaning of the design, and its place in Spanish culture. It represents a highly engaging narrative of the high point of Spanish imperial dominance, in which contemporary preoccupations with art, religion, and power are analyzed in the context of this remarkable building.
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Emblems and spaces of power during the Argaric Bronze Age at La Almoloya, Murcia
The recent discovery of an exceptionally rich grave at La Almoloya in south-eastern Spain illuminates the political context of Early Bronze Age El Argar society. The quantity, variety and opulence of the grave goods emphasise the technological, economic and social dimensions of this unique culture. The assemblage includes politically and ideologically emblematic objects, among which a silver diadem stands out. Of equally exceptional character is the building under which the grave was found—possibly one of the first Bronze Age palaces identified in Western Europe. The architecture and artefacts from La Almoloya provide new insight into emblematic individuals and the exercise of power in societies of marked economic asymmetry.
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Habsburg Madrid
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.
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ALHAMAT: analysing materiality of the Alhambra to elucidate the Nasrid dynasty's power in the Emirate of Granada
The Nasrid emirate of southern Iberia emanated power through architecture; this project aims to better understand how this was made possible, via an interdisciplinary exploration of the Alhambra monument and other Al-Andalus constructions. Initial results of archaeological campaigns, structure chronologies and communication plans undertaken in 2021 and 2022 are presented.
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