Architectural Temperance: Spain and Rome, 1700-1759

By Victor Deupi

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Through the inclusion of previously unpublished documents and images that shed light on the theoretical debates which shaped eighteenth-century architecture in Rome and Madrid, Architectural Temperance provides readers with new insights into the cultural history of early modern Spain.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415724392
• ISBN13: 9780415724395
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"