Date/Time
Date(s) - 24 Nov 2014
6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
Bettman Lecture Hall, 612 Schermerhorn, Columbia University
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Jesús Escobar “Lost Madrid: The Royal Palace of the Spanish Habsburgs”
November 24, 6pm
Bettman Lecture Hall, 612 Schermerhorn
Jesús Escobar is a professor of art history at Northwestern University, where he holds the Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Chair. He specializes in the art, architecture, and urbanism of early modern Spain, Italy and the Ibero-American world. His book The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid (2003; revised Spanish edition 2008) received the Eleanor Tufts Award from the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies. Most recently Professor Escobar has published on subjects ranging from religious architecture across the Spanish Empire to the political dimensions of a mid-seventeenth century map of Madrid. He is currently at work on his upcoming book Baroque Madrid: Architecture, Space, and the Spanish Habsburgs.
The lecture is free of charge, and no reservation is necessary. A reception will be held afterwards. A map showing the location of Schermerhorn Hall can be found here. We hope to see you at the lecture.
Sponsored by the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Columbia University, the Bettman Lecture series was endowed by Linda Bettman, a former graduate student in the department, and is named in her honor. The lecture will be followed by a reception.
For more information go to www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/calendar/bettman.html